Doomsday Clock Advanced Another 2 minutes?

[Pat Mustard]

A Cold War era US study shows a limited strike of 1,000 warheads aimed solely at US strategic military targets would lead to 32 million US civilian casualties.   The same sized strike aimed at US population centers will cause 160 million us civilian casualties including 100 million dead.

I consider these numbers to be too optimistic. Death would roam the land for decades, as it did in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Infrastructure would be in meltdown as would the economy. Clean food and water would be hard to come by, and that's only scratching the surface. It could well turn into a world like the Fallout series or Mad Max.

If we're lucky.

Consider the report was made at a time when the US was far less dependant on electronics than it is now. Any nuclear strike is going to start with detonations in the upper atmosphere to generate EMP pulses which will destroy electrical infrastructure over a huge area.