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"fun" fact: we could never actually glass the earth, but with the success of disarmament work we're at the point where, with perfect geometry, ideal yields, and a generous definition of "glass" the biggest country we could do that to is Luxembourg.
The moral of the story: strategic arms reduction treaties work, they're just very slow.
I'm not sure about that fact, there are thousands of active warheads. Do you have a source?
Math.
Our typical warhead (100kt) leaves a 200m radius crater if used to maximize the crater size. (Experiment in using nukes for mining and terrain shaping). We have less than 6000. 6000 π (0.2 km)^2^ ~ 6000(0.125km^2^ ) ~ 754km^2^ < 2,586 km^2^.
Nukes are dangerous because (other than the obvious) of what they do to the air, not the ground.
I understand that; the expression isn't literal; and we never had enough nukes to glass the surface of earth regardless of arms reduction treaties.
You'd be surprised how many people don't. It's a good fun fact, and I stand by supporting arms reduction regardless. :)