We're not fully sure of the number, but somewhere between 3 and 20 modern day nukes will be enough to start a global winter where everyone dies anyway. If any kind of nuclear war starts out, even a teeny tiny one, most-to-all of humanity is fucked.

[–] 0__0@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Somebody more knowledgeable correct me, but wasn't the whole nuclear winter thing debunked already?

[–] bumpusoot@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Not debunked, but it's all theoretical and controversial, as I say nobody really knows. Many still reasonably suggest there'd be mass extinctions from a "minor" nuclear war. Some disagree.

Basically everyone agrees there'd be some form of globally damaging fallout. Whatever the case, I'm not that eager to find out, personally.

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Not necessarily. The issue is that we don't know what a modern nuclear bomb does to a city and n=2 (where only one was a direct hit) is a terrible dataset to extrapolate from. It all depends on if cities form firestorms if hit with a nuclear bomb. Atmospheric modeling of firestorms from forest fires is unreliable; there are hundreds of thousands of data points of forest fires and very few on nuclear bombs.

[–] pumpchilienthusiast@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

I’m not saying we won’t get our hair mussed