I think the “would the world have been destroyed” comments are addressed pretty well by this bit from :
“Given the likely scale and effects of a nuclear attack, it’s most unlikely that the everybody will be killed. There will be survivors and they will rebuild a society but it will have nothing in common with what was there before. So, to all intents and purposes, once a society initiates a nuclear exchange it’s gone forever.”
I think the “would the world have been destroyed” comments are addressed pretty well by this bit from :
“Given the likely scale and effects of a nuclear attack, it’s most unlikely that the everybody will be killed. There will be survivors and they will rebuild a society but it will have nothing in common with what was there before. So, to all intents and purposes, once a society initiates a nuclear exchange it’s gone forever.”