Hillary Clinton won. How much time till Nuclear War?

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AsGryffynn said:

Netyaroze said:

It really depends on the nuclear bomb.

Actually 100 Hiroshima Bombs would not do that much. 

The strenght of the bombs is measured in kilo/mega tons its the equivalent of tons of TNT.

The Hiroshima Bomb had 20 Kilotons which is equivalent to 20000 kgTNT exploding.

100 times that would be 2 Megatons. Which is 2 Million kg TNT.

Tsar Bomba had 50 Megtons which is 50 Million Tons of TNT. 

A single Tsar Bomba is as strong as 2500 Hiroshima bombs. 

The impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. Was like 2 Million Tsar Bombas or 240000 GigaTons of TNT. We have 15000 atomic bombs currently. All far weaker then Tsar. 

The second most energetic eruption after that impact was a supervulcano which was 5000 times stronger than Tsar. To impact all the earth severly and alot of people it is enough to fire 15000 Bombs. But to extinct the human race everywhere on the planet we need much much more power. 

Ofcourse there would be nuclear winter and Billions dead however in the history of earth there were way more energetic events than the combined energy of all nuclear weapons in existance which brought way more dust in to the atmosphere and fauna and flora survived.  

The Fallout is also survivable, ofcourse life expectancy would go back to like 25 in heavily contaminated areas.

The USA fired 1200 Nuclear Bombs for test purposes in the past 50 years which is a third of all fired bombs in the past fifty years and most people ahve no clue ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests_of_the_United_States )

100 bombs evenly fired would impact all of as a bit and kill many millions. Maybe temperatures would drop enough to cancel the increasing of temperatures in the past decades. 

The earth is a huge place and asteroids, meteors can unload all the bombs we ever produced in milliseconds on us and we would still survive.  The dinausaur impactor was 10 kilometers in diameter thats bigger than the everest. We would barely be able to blow up everest with every single nuclear bomb we have.

We would have to drill into everest and place the bombs there. 

People think nukes will lead us to extinction thanks to eggheads using the word "end of life as we know it" even though the actual lingo translates to "end of civilization"... 

We'll be alright. If Fallout's anything to go by, we'll be better than they were and they had a lot of tech to prop themselves up...

The big problem is nuclear winter and the common misunderstanding of this concept is due to its poor naming as it is in no way related to the size of the nuclear bomb, just nukes were the most likely cause when the term was coined. Nuclear winter doesn't require huge megatons of nukes it just requires 100+ cities to be firestormed (by nuke or conventional weapons), a number that would be massively surpassed by a war between the US/China/Russia, the resulting soot and ash would remain in the upper atmosphere for a decade or more reducing the amount of the suns radiation that hits the earth and result in large global drops in temperature thus wiping out much of tld agricultural crops for years to come.

That Nuclear winter would likely escalate hostilities the world over as starving people have nothing left to lose.