Another really great post. Although I agree with Steven’s comment. The impact of a Soviet response nuclear strike would be disastrous enough that we don’t have to claim that it would “destroy the world”. Particularly since we may soon be weighing existential risk against stuff that could actually do just that.
Honestly, In the desert there is a computer that will launch missiles all over the world if we don’t know who shot us we even shoot who shot us. That’s why everybody is so freaking afraid to shoot us. Plus, if we lost 94%of humans maybe even a little less,The world would end. Lets say all the doctors die. We’re screwed. All the people who fix power lines. we’re screwed. All the scientist who make asprin. Well, you get the point. Please prove in anyway I am wrong. Honestly I hate the truth that I just put on the internet. Well, that sucks for me. The truth hurts.
The real problem with nukes isn’t the amount of things they can physically destroy, but the radiation left afterwards which would kill most of the population and leave huge areas of land uninhabitable for generations. And any survivors would be left with collapsed economies and governments. Millions would probably die just because we couldn’t produce enough food or drinking water, let alone other resources.
Another really great post. Although I agree with Steven’s comment. The impact of a Soviet response nuclear strike would be disastrous enough that we don’t have to claim that it would “destroy the world”. Particularly since we may soon be weighing existential risk against stuff that could actually do just that.
Honestly, In the desert there is a computer that will launch missiles all over the world if we don’t know who shot us we even shoot who shot us. That’s why everybody is so freaking afraid to shoot us. Plus, if we lost 94%of humans maybe even a little less,The world would end. Lets say all the doctors die. We’re screwed. All the people who fix power lines. we’re screwed. All the scientist who make asprin. Well, you get the point. Please prove in anyway I am wrong. Honestly I hate the truth that I just put on the internet. Well, that sucks for me. The truth hurts.
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But you may want to rethink that.
ETA: And I don’t know about you, but I have enough survival/first aid skills to survive without external medical care, electricity, or painkillers.
The real problem with nukes isn’t the amount of things they can physically destroy, but the radiation left afterwards which would kill most of the population and leave huge areas of land uninhabitable for generations. And any survivors would be left with collapsed economies and governments. Millions would probably die just because we couldn’t produce enough food or drinking water, let alone other resources.