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On August 6th and August 9th, 1945, the United States detonated 2 Nuclear weapons on Japanese cities - Hiroshima and Nagasaki and killed between 129,000 and 226,000 People, most of whom were innocent civilians.
The 2 Bombs were made by a group of scientists that were researching nuclear weapons when undergoing the Manhattan Project In World War II. Nuclear Physicist Robert Oppenheimer was the man that designed the bombs which were called “Fat Man” and “Little Boy”
Little Boy which was a uranium type bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, and Fat Man which was a Plutonium type bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Roughly half of the deaths in each city occurred on the first day of impact, but also a large number of people continued to die for months due to Burns, Radiation Sickness, and other injuries.
And all that was 1945, Since then there have been over 125,000 nuclear weapons built that are much, much more powerful than Little Boy and Fat Man combined. In 1961 the soviet Union detonated a hydrogen bomb that carried more than 50 Million Tons of TNT. When the mushroom cloud was forming it exited our atmosphere and was over 60 kilometres high. To put that in perspective that's over 7 Mount Everest's stacked together.
In 2019 there are estimated to be at least 15,000 Nuclear weapons all around the globe on standby, waiting to be launched at any moment. If 2 countries got into some sort of conflict that lead to nuclear warfare and one country launched a bomb, then it's most likely the other country in conflict won't hold back and will launch one in return. And this constant battle of nuclear bombs would result in both countries releasing all the nukes they have. Which overall would affect every last person on the planet.
And if anyone was lucky enough to survive the initial impact then the Fallout, being the radiation that is spread in the air would finish anybody off.
And if that wasn't enough, the gas and smoke in the air would block off all sun rays from touching the earth resulting in crops not being able to grow which means we wouldn't have a food source to survive. And with all of this, there is overall a 1% chance of human extinction, a 1 in 100 chance.
And that may not sound like a lot but the chance of you dying in an aeroplane accident is 1 in 11 Million, and the chance of dying by lightning is 1 in 84,000. So there is a better chance of every human on the planet dying by nuclear weapons than there is more than anything besides cancer and heart disease. And if we leave these problems at hand then this might as well be the end of civilization as we know it.
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