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When thinking about nuclear war its worth remembering that the USA, Russia and other countries have already exploded hundreds and hundreds of nuclear weapons ar
by andrewstuart 4y ago
When thinking about nuclear war its worth remembering that the USA, Russia and other countries have already exploded hundreds and hundreds of nuclear weapons around the earth.
In a very real way we have already lived through a nuclear war except the bombs were not generally aimed at people.
I raise this because when I was a kid we were taught that there would be a nuclear winter, the skies would grey with fallout. It appears however that despite exploding hundreds of nuclear weapons already, there was no nuclear winter.
- dragonwriter 4y agoHundreds of weapons spread out over decades isn't the same thing as thousands spread out over hours. (There may be reasons to doubt Cold War-era nuclear winter predictions, but “we’ve detonated much fewer bombs over a much longer period than would happen in a full-scale strategic exchange and that hasn't happened” is very much not one of them.)
- groby_b 4y agoYou're willfully ignoring that atmospheric tests are banned since 1963, the devices weren't detonated at the same time, many had a much lower yield than what'd be used in a nuclear war, and many were detonated at altitudes preventing fallout. But most importantly, the vast majority of them didn't cause firestorms - which means no smoke particles, which is the major issue in how severe nuclear winter would be. It's probably also worth understanding that your misguided argument is a very deliberately placed piece of disinfo aimed at discrediting climate science. ("See, not even nuclear winter they got right")