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by moistly 1350 days ago
Are you aware that nukes were set off forty to sixty times a year for two decades? In 1962, 140 nuclear explosions. Over 2000 nukes have gone off.

Two cities have been nuked. They are thriving cities today. The planet has not been blown up. It is not a hellscape. Crops didn’t fail. Even the worst nuclear disasters have had very limited effect beyond their immediate vicinity.

Follow Dory’s advice: keep on swimming. The world is not ending this year.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_nuclear_weapons_s...

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Those nukes went off sequentially, not all at once. Of course spreading effects across many years would lead small effects that could be mostly ignored.