Statistics says even if it’s true, unintended use probability sky rockets risking nuclear winter.

PeterHolzwarth 12 hours ago | parent [-]

It turns out (and I didn't realize this until I looked back into it just a few years ago) that the 70s/80s concept of nuclear winter is discredited and believed not to be something that would arise from a global thermonuclear holocaust.

	▲	amoss 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		On the contrary, modern research shows that the effects would be more severe and long-lasting: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2006jd00...