Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "The Infographics Show"
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One problem with the scenario.
The US and Russia retain the lion's share of nuclear and thermonuclear weapons, currently capped at 3000 or so each. China has hundreds of warheads, not thousands, wisely choosing to retain a minimum necessary to ensure deterrence.
Given that military targets take six or more warheads to neutralize, that's not leaving a lot of anything to strike civilian population centers. The economic havoc would still be significant, but the death toll from warheads and current cleaner bombs fallout is minimal.
Basically, any major exchange is putting the exchanging powers at the bottom rung of global power, due to the military and economic attrition.
The worst of the fallout, assuming a few ground bursts, a few days, the next worse two weeks and as noted, Hiroshima and Nagasaki rapidly recovered.
Basically, the weapons are far more trouble than they're worth.
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