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by darkwraithcov 1030 days ago
Complete and utter world annihilation from nukes has almost happened a number of times. Nuclear proliferation was one of humanity’s most disgusting and unconscionable mistakes.

If you aren’t familiar, look up Tsar Bomba on youtube and witness how terrifyingly destructive a 50 megaton warhead is. Then look up the abject cruelty that is the Neutron Bomb. Education on nuclear war and fallout is of the utmost importance, to get people around the world in the mindset of disarmament.
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dgroshev 1030 days ago
Tsar Bomba was a one off and has no relation to weapons of today. Look up what's on top of Tridents, it's mostly W-76 of various kinds, all below 100kt, which is about twice more powerful than Fat Man when you consider that effects scale very sublinearly vs yield.

There is practically no fallout from air bursts.

Nuclear warhead is a late WW2 strategic bombing raid in a 100kg package, delivered in a fraction of a second, and with no protection against it.

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OfSanguineFire 1030 days ago
> If you aren’t familiar, look up Tsar Bomba on youtube and witness how terrifyingly destructive a 50 megaton warhead is

Tsar Bomba was a one-off experiment – and one designed for some level of psychological intimidation that you appear to have fallen for. No nuclear-armed country today maintains 50-megaton warheads for actual use against an adversary. Instead, planning involves use of a larger number of smaller warheads, and that is already enough to be worried about.

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me_me_me 1030 days ago
That is a dead on take.

You dont have to kill everyone in nuclear strikes. Destroy every single powerplant, radio station and port in a single strike and watch them going back to dark ages in matter of minutes.

No electricity and no communications means mass chaos. every city becomes a unsustainable trap with no supplies.

It would be terrifying to be in a middle of that. A nation that would tear itself apart for self preservation while all supplies are somewhere far out, 'in a place where food comes from'.

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darkwraithcov 1029 days ago
Do they maintain weapons that would cause the same level of destruction when used in tandem? I am not familiar with modern arsenals. I guess I was just ruminating on what is possible, not what is practical that was my mistake.
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