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Raldikuk
Apr 7, 2006

I'm bad with money and I want that meatball!

mitztronic posted:

How is this possible? Collectively, we have tested over 500 nuclear weapons above ground for a total of 545 MT. In 1962, there were something like 140 nuclear tests in total. We are still alive. How is it that 100x 15 kT weapons would cause so much destruction?

e: added wikipedia link with the nuclear test graph

This study takes into account the effect of actually using those weapons on cities and such. The vast majority of the effect would be from the cities themselves burning. But even with that it seems a bit overblown given we burnt Japan to the ground and didn't end the world.

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