• mkwt@lemmy.world
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    The primary killer from global thermonuclear war will be starvation due to crop failures. Not fallout, radiation, or direct damage.

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      Right and as a kid from the Cold War, anyone with half a brain knew it’d be a terrible life after surviving the initial devastation in a global attack.

      Lots of us were committed to running toward the blast, rather than ducking and covering.