Have you forgotten about WWII?
Two cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were utterly destroyed by nuclear weapons.
Even with that PLUS all the other deaths due to the war with Imperial Japan, the population of Japan only decreased by a few million people. It only took one or two years for Japan to recover that population. What's interesting, is that if you look at a population chart for Japan in that era, (1930-1960) although the chart shows a decline, the population growth over this period remains fairly constant. (You can draw a straight line over that declination, as if it never happened)
Little Boy: 13 kilo tons explosive power
Fat Man: 21 kilo tons explosive power
Total: 34 kilo tons explosive power.
126'000 dead inmediately, 90'000 by radiation.
No nuclear holocaust.
1 hydrogen bomb: 10.4 MEGA tons explosive power(800 times hiroshima)
nuclear warheads per country(estimate 2009):
China ~ 180
France ~ 300
Britain ~ 160
Russia ~ 13000(4830 operative)
USA ~ 9400(2700 operative)
India ~ 50
Pakistan ~ 60
Israel ~ 80
North Korea < 10
Thats 8370 warheads useable right away. Each of those has, on average, plenty more power than those, lets say even _1_ Megaton(Zarbomb has 60 Megatons alone), so 8370 Megatons, or 246176 times the explosive power of both bombs on japan combined.
While casualties will not scale linear, the total collapse of infrastructure WILL increase total casualties accordingly. Multiplying the total of 200k dead by 246k times the power would lead to 49 billion people dead. Now as said it doesn't nowhere scale linearly, but even one fifth of this is enough to utterly wipe us off the face of this planet.
THAT is nuclear cataclysm. Not 2 small bombs that were technically weapon tests on living targets.
Is it normal That i want to burn the world and start over?
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Have you forgotten about WWII?
Two cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were utterly destroyed by nuclear weapons.
Even with that PLUS all the other deaths due to the war with Imperial Japan, the population of Japan only decreased by a few million people. It only took one or two years for Japan to recover that population. What's interesting, is that if you look at a population chart for Japan in that era, (1930-1960) although the chart shows a decline, the population growth over this period remains fairly constant. (You can draw a straight line over that declination, as if it never happened)
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Little Boy: 13 kilo tons explosive power
Fat Man: 21 kilo tons explosive power
Total: 34 kilo tons explosive power.
126'000 dead inmediately, 90'000 by radiation.
No nuclear holocaust.
1 hydrogen bomb: 10.4 MEGA tons explosive power(800 times hiroshima)
nuclear warheads per country(estimate 2009):
China ~ 180
France ~ 300
Britain ~ 160
Russia ~ 13000(4830 operative)
USA ~ 9400(2700 operative)
India ~ 50
Pakistan ~ 60
Israel ~ 80
North Korea < 10
Thats 8370 warheads useable right away. Each of those has, on average, plenty more power than those, lets say even _1_ Megaton(Zarbomb has 60 Megatons alone), so 8370 Megatons, or 246176 times the explosive power of both bombs on japan combined.
While casualties will not scale linear, the total collapse of infrastructure WILL increase total casualties accordingly. Multiplying the total of 200k dead by 246k times the power would lead to 49 billion people dead. Now as said it doesn't nowhere scale linearly, but even one fifth of this is enough to utterly wipe us off the face of this planet.
THAT is nuclear cataclysm. Not 2 small bombs that were technically weapon tests on living targets.