What nuclear war looks like from space
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I don't know if this is realistic or not.
On the one hand, there were hundreds of not thousands of nuke tests over a few decades and we didn't see this accumulated sun-blocking smoke.
But you could argue those tests weren't over populated areas.
But there were city-level firestorms in both Germany and Japan in WWII, and we also didn't see these results.
I guess it would depend on how many devices were set off, where, and at what altitude. If largely military targets then probably less smoke than over cities.
Honestly, I would suspect Russia would concentrate on military targets, but I don't trust Biden/Nuland to be so conscientious.