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I'm not sure why this is a common belief, it's strange.
The current nuclear stock pile is tiny compared to what it was, and the amount of power to create a nuclear winter is much much more than what is generally accepted.
Even a nuclear conflict between two large countries is not likely to impact others except for things like fallout drift. The MAD concept of mutual assured destruction had been shown through studies and examples like the Cuban missile crisis to be inaccurate as individuals are still required to make those decisions and will often not launch, even when directly ordered to.
True, but you didn't talk about biological weapons. There are dozens of highly infectious viruses,bacteria, fungus etc released at multiple locations in the same time, would wipe out most of the population, and some bacteria and most of the fungus stays there hibernated themselves for decades! There was an Anthrax weapon test on Gruinnard island in Scotland, and It was in quaranteen for fifty years.
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Decontamination[edit]
Starting in 1986 a determined effort was made to decontaminate the island, with 280 tonnes of formaldehyde solution diluted in seawater being sprayed over all 196 hectares of the 2km long*1 km wide island and the worst-contaminated topsoil around the dispersal site being removed.
They could release modified versions of the H1N1, Foot and Mouth disease, etc, killing all the livestock causing worldwide famine like no one before... We might don't have enough nukes to make a nuclear winter, but if they hit the Yellowstone Super Volcanoe with a few strong enough tectonic bomb, it could start the eruption, it is already like 50k years late. It will cause a "Nucler winter" without the radiation. And I didn't talk about the big guns yet
They can hit the icecapes to crack it up to smaller pieces to raise the sea level and further destabilizing the climate... Sweet Summer Child, if nukes start to fly, there won't be anything stop the human imagination find new and better ways killing eachother