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Re:How a small nuclear war would transform the entire planet... by toyg on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @09:44AM (#30600418)
> the siberia tests by the US and USSR were probably much bigger than anything a ballistic missile could carry today

I doubt this very, very much.

Also to note: those were single blasts (as opposed to the dozens that would now cover any given region), some were underwater, none of them interacted with amounts of structures and living matter comparable to a populated city.

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Re:How a small nuclear war would transform the entire planet... by Arubis on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @09:50AM (#30600484)
s/could/would/

My layman’s understanding is that huge warheads are a less efficient usage of nuclear materiel (in terms of sheer destruction) than a larger number of mid-sized warheads.

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