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That was interesting, thanks
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Midnight is a nuclear war, not extinction. There will be humans around to move the clock, if only briefly. >

Even if there were full scale nuclear war there’d still be plenty of humans around. >

All around. Bits of us on the walls, bits of us in the atmosphere... >

I know you’re joking but people vastly overestimate the blast radius. All the major western cities are gone but most of the smaller ones would survive. I doubt people in South America would be significantly affected directly. The western world ending would be a problem for them though. >

What about the resultant nuclear winter though?