The ultimate scoffer’s scoffer — calling nukes a scam. LOL
The hysteria over nukes was somewhat of a scam. Remember movies like “On the beach”. The thinking then was that a nuclear exchange would end all life on earth. The dim bumb Carl Sagan revived it with nuclear winter in the 80s.
It would have been very bad, but most of humanity including the entire southern hemisphere would have hardly noticed it even happened.