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I'm with you in the "prefer instant annihilation" camp.

Here's all the places that a nuclear strike would hit: https://i0.wp.com/www.armenpogharian.com/wp-content/uploads/...

Looks like the only survival strategy is "live in the west, away from major cities and away from nuclear launch sites."

Neat map. It's easy to think "NYC, DC, SF will get hit, stick to a smaller city to improve your odds", but there are tons of worthwhile targets. However, this map is also very US-centric, and if Putin loses his mind, might he attack many NATO countries? Or would e.g. Spain and Greece be largely unscathed? Or maybe South America and Africa and Asia would mostly be intact.

Now, ~5k warheads is certainly enough to hit the top 10 cities in every country, which might cause chaos that we can't recover from, but I doubt they would be distributed that way.

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