Re:Battlefield of the Cold War: Nevada Test Site 1951 - 1963...
by colechristensen on Friday May 28, 2021 @12:43AM
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The underground tests released very little radioactive material into the environment.
The atmospheric tests were the cause of death of fewer than half a million people, it’s not the best metric.
A single well placed bomb could be far more destructive to human life than the total effects of all of the testing.
And... the negative consequences of atmospheric testing just weren’t known very well.
You’re exaggerating.
A real nuclear war would threaten being an extinction level event. Nuclear testing probably caused several hundred thousand cancers. There is a sense of scale that needs to be respected.
The threat of nuclear testing is the inevitable arms race which makes nuclear war more and more likely.
The atmospheric tests were the cause of death of fewer than half a million people, it’s not the best metric.
A single well placed bomb could be far more destructive to human life than the total effects of all of the testing.
And... the negative consequences of atmospheric testing just weren’t known very well.
You’re exaggerating.
A real nuclear war would threaten being an extinction level event. Nuclear testing probably caused several hundred thousand cancers. There is a sense of scale that needs to be respected.
The threat of nuclear testing is the inevitable arms race which makes nuclear war more and more likely.