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Re:When Carl Sagan Warned the World About Nuclear Winter (2017) by simonh on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @04:47PM (#23851522)
OK, what is the scenario where a single madman causes a complete simultaneous nuclear conflagration by the USA and USSR, the only countries with enough bombs to cause a global nuclear holocaust?

Russia and the USA have no interest in destroying each other. All the other nuclear powers are too small fry to cause more than regional damage.

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Re:When Carl Sagan Warned the World About Nuclear Winter (2017) by acqq on Thursday July 16, 2020 @05:35AM (#23857275)
> what is the scenario where a single madman causes a complete simultaneous nuclear conflagration

An actual nuclear war planner wrote a whole book about that:

"The Doomsday Machine Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner"

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-doomsday-machine-978160819...

P.S. USSR doesn't exist anymore.

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