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Re:The vision of nuclear holocaust in Threads (1984) remains... by pmoriarty on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @08:11PM (#14102910)
We'd be lucky if billions, not millions, of people didn't die in an all-out nuclear war between the US and Russia. It's still debatable whether any humans anywhere in the world would survive.
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Re:The vision of nuclear holocaust in Threads (1984) remains... by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @08:50PM (#14103138)
> It's still debatable whether any humans anywhere in the world would survive

Is it?

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Re:The vision of nuclear holocaust in Threads (1984) remains... by thatcherc on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @09:51PM (#14103461)
Long term, yeah. The ensuing nuclear winter would effect the entire planet much more than was thought in the early Cold War [1], which would absolutely affect food production. Add in the fallout, and your long-term forecast looks pretty bad.

[1] - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1505.00246.pdf

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