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I've seen this before, and after the first time seeing it I wondered why is everybody talking about the Cold War, when 516 (+1 unknown) of them were atmospheric tests? And IIRC every single one of them stronger than Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Seems rather HOT to me.




The deaths by those tests were negligible, compared to the expected deaths in a hot war. Just compare the millions of fatalities in Korea, Afghanistan or Vietnam. Those wars were only stand-ins for the real big one that thankfully never came.




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