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crafty · 3404 days ago · link · · parent · post: Video clip of Cannikin, the largest underground thermonuclear test
I was always kind of under the impression that full scale nuclear war wouldn't really be "The End of the World," other than for those in the targeted population centers, of course. The rest of us would just have to deal with some radiation and nuclear winter type effects, the degree of which would scale with just how "full-scale" of a war it was, much more like a bullet to the foot than to the head. I think the risks of global civilization collapse from nuclear war are easy to be overblown in popular imagination, when in reality, the more dangerous threats are much quieter, like the gradual collapse of ecosystems from climate change.