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Alive! but do you want to be?
You live in the middle of no where or are lucky. The planet isnt looking good though. Get ready for some great skiing in the incoming nuclear winter!
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This was simulating the 50 MT bomb. For some reason they don't consider the City I do live in a likely target, though I think it would be, whichwould make the outcome much different.
Also, for a large city (500 k plus), this assumes a single warhead strike, but that is unrealistic. The current strategy is to target large cities with multiple smaller warheads (the 350 KT ones) to maximize the blast and heat damage through overlapping concentric circles, which overall does more damage that dropping just one BIG bomb on a single city.
As for the "nuclear winter", that fear has always been deeply oversold. Most of the blasts will be airbursts, to maximize the heat and blast radius (the closer the bombs goes off to the ground, the more of its energy gets spent creating a big hole) but that lowers the amout of dirt thrown high in the atmosphere. Also, not as much flamable stuff to create long lasting firestorms in many modern cities.