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Re:Ask HN: Do you think nuclear armageddon is plausible? by pstrateman on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @03:16PM (#30532443)
The scale of modern nuclear weapons make Hiroshima look like a toy.

Every potential position of a nuclear second strike would be hit with a warhead.

That's huge swaths of land converted to nothing for 2-5km in every direction.

Humans might survive, but not in places with nuclear weapons.

South America and Africa looking pretty safe right now.

Re:Ask HN: Do you think nuclear armageddon is plausible? by dzhiurgis on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @05:37PM (#30534300)
> 2-5km in every direction

That's what? 200k-500k people? There's thousands of cities sized like that.