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    $\begingroup$ Hiroshima and Nagasaki are large and prosperous cities... $\endgroup$ Commented Sep 13, 2019 at 23:44
  • $\begingroup$ @AlexP - I never contested that. I only said it left a dent we would never see the end of. While the fallout of those particular strikes didnt prevent repopulation, it did expose the side effects of using nuclear devices and was emphasized in other incidents like chernobyl, which has much stronger lasting effects. I did imply there would be environmental consequences and I did not specify the zones would be survivable, even neutral. But the overall geo-political consequences are lasting indefinitely now and would only be greater in the weapons of today which are measured in magnitudes of ww2 $\endgroup$ Commented Sep 14, 2019 at 0:07
  • $\begingroup$ ... often ranging from ~80x to pver 3,000x the power of the bombs from yesterday. And the OP is talking future, so who knows what psychos will come up with in the interim. But yeah, I get it. I'm not saying the WW2 nukes, chernobyl, or fukushima would be the end of humanity as we know it. But their impressions have since caused us all to re-think casual use of these kinds of weapons. What if some idiot decided not to heed the warnings and actually used a nuke 3,000x the strength of hiroshima on a hurricane? We don't want to find out. Neither do the war lords of the OP's story. That's all. $\endgroup$ Commented Sep 14, 2019 at 0:09
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    $\begingroup$ France, the Soviet Union, the U.S.A. (and others) have detonated many many nuclear bombs on the surface, some very much more powerful than those used in WW2. We are still here, and our existence was not threatened. (And the idea of disrupting a hurricane by detonating a nuclear warhead has been proposed and studied scientifically. We know that it won't work; hurricanes are very powerful and highly energetic phenomena, and would laugh at our puny bomb. Not even the largest bomb ever made, the Soviet 50 megaton Tsar Bomb, would disrupt a fully developed hurricane.) $\endgroup$ Commented Sep 14, 2019 at 0:20
  • $\begingroup$ @AlexP - I'm not sure what your goal here is. I am well aware of the global use of nuclear devices and the fact that we're still here. My point is exactly that a hurricane would laugh at our puny bomb, but the backlash of that event may not be so laughable. Hence the hand-wavium. It's speculation what such an act would set as a standard for nuclear use and what sort of environmental impact it could cause in a fictional scenario where the OP can make flying pigs a reality if they wanted to. $\endgroup$ Commented Sep 14, 2019 at 1:20