I didn't downvote you, but I think it's pretty obvious:
> Or nuke everything, whichever comes first. Heh.
is the why. Casual amusement at nuclear holocaust/extinction doesn't tend to get a lot of upvotes on HN.
Plus, it didn't make any sense: 1) a nuclear war wouldn't involve nuking everything under any plausible scenario; 2) you could direct every nuclear missile on earth at just the US (including the US arsenal) and still not manage to kill all the people in the US with either the initial blasts or the fallout, which is another way of saying that not only can we not nuke everything, but we couldn't even eradicate ourselves with nuclear war if we wanted to for some reason (much less wipe out the planet, much less wipe out all of humanity, that's all beyond far-fetched).
> Or nuke everything, whichever comes first. Heh.
is the why. Casual amusement at nuclear holocaust/extinction doesn't tend to get a lot of upvotes on HN.
Plus, it didn't make any sense: 1) a nuclear war wouldn't involve nuking everything under any plausible scenario; 2) you could direct every nuclear missile on earth at just the US (including the US arsenal) and still not manage to kill all the people in the US with either the initial blasts or the fallout, which is another way of saying that not only can we not nuke everything, but we couldn't even eradicate ourselves with nuclear war if we wanted to for some reason (much less wipe out the planet, much less wipe out all of humanity, that's all beyond far-fetched).