Nuclear war is unlikely to cause human extinction?

Re:Nuclear war is unlikely to cause human extinction? by XorNot on Thursday November 12, 2020 @08:42PM (#25077855)

Urgh, atmospheric ignition was considered but it was studied 6 months before the first nuclear test was conducted: [1] https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2019/09/12/the_fear_th...

The whole atmospheric ignition thing depends on physics which just doesn't work: specifically, that you can reach a temperature without gravitational pressure that triggers nuclear fusion at ambient atmospheric pressures.

It is in the same category as the "concerns" the LHC would create black holes which swallowed the Earth.

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Re:Nuclear war is unlikely to cause human extinction? by codekilla on Thursday November 12, 2020 @09:22PM (#25078104)

That’s not how it was presented in [0], which is one book I had read, among others. And that’s fine if that particular argument is incorrect, the logic of the point I’m making still stands. I can envision a feasible chance of a technological improvement to explosives that would make them ‘completely’ dangerous (kill every last human) if that’s what we’re going for.

[0] https://anniejacobsen.com/pentagons-brain/

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