[LetsGetTechnicl]

This reminds me of a recent NYT op-ed where the premise was "a little nuclear war is okay." The reality is that any amount of nuclear war is the end of humanity, there is no post-nuclear war civilization, at least not for very long.

[simonh]

>The reality is that any amount of nuclear war is the end of humanity…

Maybe I’m not understanding what you mean, but on the face of it that’s absurd. If N Korea nuked S Korea and the US nuked them back, or if Pakistan and India decided to toast a few of each others cities, the impact on the rest of the world would be mostly economic.

[adventured]

> The reality is that any amount of nuclear war is the end of humanity

One of the more absurd myths still going. It's not remotely close to being true.

You could detonate all the globe's nuclear weapons simultaneously within the territory of Texas and you'd fail to kill everyone in Texas. It's also not an argument that nuclear war is acceptable obviously. Pretending humanity and or civilization will cease due to nuclear war is very outlandish.

We detonated five hundred nuclear weapons above ground over half a century, and two thousand total. You could nuke the biggest 100 cities and humanity would pick itself up and promptly keep going.