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What is the climate like 200 years after nuclear war?
I know there would probably be an ash-based cooling period, but, how long would that last and then what happens? Is the post-apocalyptic desert even possible in a post-nuclear war world?
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What signs of nuclear explosion in SLC can be seen from Lincoln Highway?
First thing: I don't know if it's the right stack to ask this question, so I'm sorry if it's not.
I'm writing an adventure for an apocalyptic RPG session. One point of the plot is a detonation of 100 ...
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Nuclear holocaust survival? [closed]
Okay, so I'm writing a story about a character in one of the rebuilt cities of the world about 2000 years after a mass nuclear war that took place around maybe 100 years from now, a war that destroyed ...
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Could the entire world have been destroyed by the existing nuclear arsenal in 1962?
Considering the nuclear arsenal that existed in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis, could it have destroyed the entire world, following the events below?
Edited question a bit:
Considering the ...
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Apocalypse design help. Is there any life-sustaining atmosphere which an atomic blast could ignite?
I've read a few answers here about how Earth's atmosphere is impossible to ignite with an atomic bomb. Is there some atmospheric mixture which could be both life-sustaining and able to ignite into a "...