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To: Eric who wrote (51186)5/12/2014 4:04:37 PM
From: Hawkmoon1 Recommendation  Read Replies (3) of 86355
 
Not according to my dad who said to me his biggest worry was an accidental launching causing a cascading launching on the other side.
For one, most of those nukes are "rubble busters". That means that more than one warhead will be sent against the same target to ensure their destruction (missile silos, cities, etc, etc... ) To ensure the kind of total destruction you're talking about, those nuclear blasts would have be spread out to cover the total land masses of the planet.

There is NO DOUBT that most of human life (and a good portion of other terrestrial life forms) will perish in a nuclear exchange.

And ask your father if he ever heard of the Toba Supervolcano and the Population Bottleneck that is theorized that it caused.

The Toba catastrophe theory suggests that a bottleneck of the human population occurred c. 70,000 years ago, proposing that the human population was reduced to perhaps 10,000 individuals [3]
en.wikipedia.org

The eruption of Toba was beyond anything we've EVER experienced. It's believed that it was 100 times larger than any volcanic eruption ever recorded by man. It is believed that it dropped the temperature of the planet by 3-6 Celsius for a number of years, and actually made have accelerated the onset of the next glacial period.

That's far more powerful than a "suitcase bomb" which would be a few thousand Kilotons, at most..

Again, I'm not saying that human life would survive (but I assume a few would).. But that Nature would recover and soon be thriving once again..

Nature is far more resilient than we fragile humans are..

Hawk
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