Some of the people here trying to make light of a potential US/Russia nuclear war under the logic that most of Russia's bombs probably don't work or that previo

Some of the people here trying to make light of a potential US/Russia nuclear war under the logic that most of Russia's bombs probably don't work or that previously nuked cities like Hiroshima and Nagasaki are now perfectly livable, thriving cities miss the forest for the trees in a very big way. Even if only 1 or 2% of Russia's presumed arsenal of several thousand was functional enough to get through, and even if only half of those weren't knocked out before making their targeted impacts, you'd still be talking about at least dozens of nuclear bombs exploding on the western side of the world. Most of these would strike places inhabited by millions of people and enormously important amounts of critical infrastructure. Add to that the arguably larger number of bombs working enough to be successfully launched by the U.S and its nuclear-armed allies in retaliation against Russia (and a greater percentage of them reaching their targets, because after seeing its military "perform" in Ukraine, I simply don't believe that Russia's anti-missile measures would be particularly effective). With all of this combined you'd still be seeing an absolutely catastrophic global situation of human, social, political, economic and climatological destabilization. At least tens of millions would die immediately and at least tens of millions more would die in the months of war, further mutual attacks, radiation, regional nuclear fallout effects and global economic (think food distribution in particular) effects that would follow. In no time at all, we'd be facing a whole new geopolitical and devastated economic landscape in which more people have died than in all the wars of history combined. Even if this were not the utter Armageddon of a full blown nuclear war of thousands of raining missiles, it would still devastate the peace and better human trends of the planet as we know them today. Ultimately, it would then also be a humanitarian tragedy on a scale never before seen in modern world history. That's nothing to disregard, and it's almost certainly something that would brutally damage the lives of every single person commenting here in some deeply personal, hard way, at the least.