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You don't need to nuke every literal single square inch of the world to kill a majority of the population. Remove enough governments and the world will become a

by jerlam 4y ago

You don't need to nuke every literal single square inch of the world to kill a majority of the population. Remove enough governments and the world will become anarchy. Destroy a lot of infrastructure and suddenly no goods, food, or water gets transported. Contaminate the sky and ground enough, and agriculture won't grow. If you live in some tiny corner of the world, off the grid, grow your own food, without any dependencies on the outside world, you might survive for a while. But it won't be the world we live in today.

jxramos 4y ago
Very true. I think I'm hung up on the discrepancy with animations around this topic I eventually came to realize were extremely exaggerated. Like I think I saw a cartoon where like a chunk of the earth was removed like a lobotomy sort of thing, a huge sector of mass. I realized much later that these bombs simply do not have that kind of power as terrible as they are. I also later realized that asteroids can do some major serious damage on a whole other magnitude beyond nukes. The size of an asteroid crater is way beyond the crater size of nukes * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_impact_craters_on_Earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_impact_craters_on_Eart... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedan_Crater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedan_Crater
- jxramos 4y ago
  Interestingly enough I can't make out the Tsar Bomba crater https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bomba+Zar/@73.5383394,54.7336004,1236m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x44f7639ffb29a117:0x688ce749fa62ac0b!8m2!3d73.5383394!4d54.7336004!16s%2Fg%2F11gnpvh2m1 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bomba+Zar/@73.5383394,54.7...
- namaria 4y ago
  The global effects of a nuclear war would be truly horrible. It's not just about the force of impact or blast radius or even how much land gets directly scorched. It's akin to a major chain volcanic eruption... A huge amount of particulate blocks the sun for decades and everything withers. There will be no post apocalyptic society. This is a major extinction event, an ecosystem wipe.

by jerlam 4y ago

jxramos 4y ago

Very true. I think I'm hung up on the discrepancy with animations around this topic I eventually came to realize were extremely exaggerated. Like I think I saw a cartoon where like a chunk of the earth was removed like a lobotomy sort of thing, a huge sector of mass. I realized much later that these bombs simply do not have that kind of power as terrible as they are. I also later realized that asteroids can do some major serious damage on a whole other magnitude beyond nukes. The size of an asteroid crater is way beyond the crater size of nukes * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_impact_craters_on_Earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_impact_craters_on_Eart... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedan_Crater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedan_Crater

jxramos 4y ago
Interestingly enough I can't make out the Tsar Bomba crater https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bomba+Zar/@73.5383394,54.7336004,1236m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x44f7639ffb29a117:0x688ce749fa62ac0b!8m2!3d73.5383394!4d54.7336004!16s%2Fg%2F11gnpvh2m1 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bomba+Zar/@73.5383394,54.7...
namaria 4y ago
The global effects of a nuclear war would be truly horrible. It's not just about the force of impact or blast radius or even how much land gets directly scorched. It's akin to a major chain volcanic eruption... A huge amount of particulate blocks the sun for decades and everything withers. There will be no post apocalyptic society. This is a major extinction event, an ecosystem wipe.