Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Oppenheimer’s Worst Fear…" video.

@stardolphin2 Kyle Hill has a video on the self-sustaining nitrogen fusion hypothesis. The logic is in the math. With a high enough temperature it happens. We've never reached a 1/100th of that temperature inside a nuclear blast so we're safe.
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Nuclear winter isn't real, especially in the Sahara. Sand would turn to glass. Nuclear winter was developed from the massive city fires in Japan, caused by wooden construction and stacks of coal used for domestic purposes. When Iraq set the Kuwait oil fires ablaze to cover their retreat, cooling effects were no observed except for the areas physically shaded by smoke.
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That was Cold War era reasoning by scientists to dissuade nuclear escalation. Japanese cities in the 1940s were built with a lot of wood. Modern fire codes and building materials ensure that such firestorms wouldn't happen. Anyway, the Iraqi army set something like 800 oil fires when retreating from Kuwait, creating huge pillars of black smoke. Cooling effects were negligible.
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@EC-dz4bq An air burst is more efficient as a bomb (conventional or otherwise) and a ground burst is worse for civilians. Stuff in the air dissipates easily. The solution to pollution is dillution, it's the dose that makes the poison, etc. A ground burst will lift material, irradiate it, then scatter it downwind. The fallout is much, much worse.
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 @briansowell6582 "today's megaton weapons" but most deployable warheads top out at 475 kiloton.
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