
Nuclear war could kill millions or billions, but would it really end civilization? We separate blast, fallout, nuclear winter, and Hollywood myths from the physics of what survives and how societies might rebuild.
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Credits:
Nuclear War Myths: Would Civilization Really End?
Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur
Music by Epidemic Sound: http://nebula.tv/epidemic
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:09The Apocalypse We Inherited
4:05 What Nuclear Weapons Actually Do
9:33 Fallout Is Not Magic Death Dust
19:21 Cities Burn, But the World Is Not One City
23:29 Civilization After the Strike
32:08 Flexispot
33:38 Survival Beyond the Numbers
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