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[–] HexBroke@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think they have enough strategic nukes to do that.

[–] Chapo_is_Red@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe they only kill some tens of millions of people then, rather than everyone

[–] HexBroke@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

I think a few tens of million from direct and indirect damage and then maybe 300 million from famine depending on the soot injected into the atmosphere, so about the same as a decade of deaths under capitalism.