Russia amps up nuclear threat.

  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    “Nuclear fallout” in modern nukes is isolated to the area they hit. As such, modern nukes aren’t going to irradiate the atmosphere that would lead to a Fallout video-game style world.

    What they will do is kill a f*** ton of people and thermally destroy a specific area REALLY hard. If you’re in the blast radius, you won’t even know it. You’ll be dead from the shockwave so fast you’ll have literally less than a second of confusion before you get turned into meat mist.

    • Rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Is that true? :o I thought the way nukes irradiated the atmosphere was through all the dust and shit thrown up during the explosion being blown around by wind currents? Has that changed with new nukes?

      • Urist@lemmy.ml
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        1 month ago

        More worried about this triggering an ice age and subsequent global failure of what crops remain.