Comments by "Trazyn" (@Trazynn) on "Where to Move to Escape Nuclear War" video.

Kurzegesagt explained this rather well. There's no escaping nuclear war. In the Northern Hemisphere billions of people will die in the famine that ensues after the atmosphere dims. Gruesomeness at a scale humans have never encountered before. It will be like The Road. The Southern Hemisphere stands a better chance and those countries will simply be invaded by whichever militaries are still left to annex the crops and feed their troops.
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@sgill4833 Even a limited nuclear conflict like say between Pakistan and India is enough to dim the atmosphere and ruin harvests for years.
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@jayw115 The bombs that fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were fire crackers compared to the modern nuclear arsenal. Modern nukes reach high up in the atmosphere where ash doesn't precipitate fast, that creates a long phase of dimmed sunlight.
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The notion that people can prepare for what happens after a nuclear strike is a very dangerous idea. It makes the people who have their finger on the button underestimate the horror and gamble on it.
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@000T00b modern nukes don't have much fallout. But you're spot on about the dimming effect. That's what kills billions in the most slow and painful way. People will spend their last few months seeing their governments fail, then chaos and disorder sets in, they will see their loved ones starve and ultimately there will be cannibalism.
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@loganpraetorian It's not radiation that you need to be worried about. Modern nukes have very little of that. It's the stratospheric ash (no winds or precipitation up there) that will dim the sunlight enough to make harvests fail for a couple of years. That's enough to make billions starve to death and set our civilization back for centuries. We might not even recover that fast, if at all, as we've blown through all the easily accessible coal reserves to kick start a new industrial revolution.
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Modern nukes don't have significant radiation. Modern nukes are even more dangerous as they have blasts that reach the upper atmosphere and have their ash dim the sunlight causing harvests to fail.
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The sun only has to slightly dim for a year and that's already enough to wipe out billions. A super volcano can do it and a nuclear conflict absolutely will.
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