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Go look at the Nevada Test Site on Google maps. About 1000 nukes were set off there. Las Vegas is only about 100 miles away and by all accounts seems to be thri
by nancyminusone 1y ago
Go look at the Nevada Test Site on Google maps. About 1000 nukes were set off there. Las Vegas is only about 100 miles away and by all accounts seems to be thriving.
In a nuclear attack, it's unlikely "we'll" be fine, but someone will be.
- ck2 1y agoWhat on earth are you downplaying There never ever has been an above-ground test of a modern enhanced hydrogen bomb in the USA The Bikini Atoll test in the 1950s using 75 year old technology killed people via radiation over 130 miles away Modern ICBMs carry several much more powerful warheads than that Even a few of them would make life on earth a permanent hell like peak covid pandemic but forever Even the "smallest" nuclear war would be one-and-we're-done event Eventually some tyrant on their deathbed will do it though
- RajT88 1y agoSo hold on. You are saying Tsar Bomba would have potentially been an extinction event at ground level? Holy shit.