“anyone know if 2 or 3 hundred nuke are exchanged, if that’s a planet killer, or is that just the movies?”
Well, over about 25 years close to 2000 were set off worldwide and we barely noticed. A few hundred would devastate the countries who played, and the others wouldn’t notice much except the things they get from us would kinda be gone for a while.
I doubt the southern hemisphere would even notice if nobody told them.
As a fun aside, the number of people murdered by government in the last century was around 260 million. Not killed in wars and air raid, but simply the basic definition of murder if an individual did it. That is roughly the estimate of dead on a normal US/Russia exchange.
So the 1900s basically showed us a slow motion nuclear war. We, and the planet would survive it easily. Movies like “on the beach” were pure Science Fiction horror and that’s about it.
incredible stats!! several thousand!!
yeah, i guess all those nukes in the dessert didn’t destroy the US.
number of civilians killed by government is horrifying.