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Originally Posted by CyberSEO
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"A regional exchange of relatively small nuclear weapons could plunge the world into a decade-long "nuclear winter", destroying agriculture and killing millions, according to a new study. "
"By contrast, a regional exchange where adversaries target each others' megacities would ignite huge urban firestorms. Toon calculates the smoke released per kilotonne of explosive yield would be 100 times greater than in the Cold War scenarios."
"This is partly because modern scenarios aim at different targets. Toon says most of the huge US and Russian nuclear warheads are aimed, in a first strike, at missile silos in wilderness or suburban military installations. There is not much to burn, and after the first warhead hits, subsequent explosions do not release much additional smoke."
'Nuclear winter' may kill more than a nuclear war - environment - 01 March 2007 - New Scientist
So, millions dead, but there are billions of people and the later quote says exactly what I said before. Millions dead isn't doomsday. WWII alone killed about 60-80 million people.
Of course it would suck, I am not saying it wouldn't.