Novaya Zemlya is tundra (ie, “lichen, sedge, sometimes grass, and if you’re lucky, scattered dwarf shrubs sitting on permafrost”) and glaciers. The Tsar Bomba went off in October. That’s October in the Arctic Circle, by the way.
We shouldn’t be surprised at this vast asymmetry between “models of nuclear warfare targeting cities in populated areas” and “one very large nuclear bomb, set off as a test, in the Arctic during the beginning of local winter.”
Novaya Zemlya is tundra (ie, “lichen, sedge, sometimes grass, and if you’re lucky, scattered dwarf shrubs sitting on permafrost”) and glaciers. The Tsar Bomba went off in October. That’s October in the Arctic Circle, by the way.
We shouldn’t be surprised at this vast asymmetry between “models of nuclear warfare targeting cities in populated areas” and “one very large nuclear bomb, set off as a test, in the Arctic during the beginning of local winter.”