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It's said that no one wins in a war with nukes, can someone explain why? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by AmerikaLosesWW3@lemmygrad.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

See, you got the basic idea right with nuclear winter, but fallout wouldn't be a significant part of is in most places. Nukes do the most damage in an airburst, and they don't make a lot of fallout unless there's solids in the fireball.

There's also the whole "no remaining cities to fight with" thing.