Seen Chernobyl lately?
The truth is between your extreme and the extreme doomsday of the anti-nukers. Mainly don't build those suckers on fault lines and that's half the battle right there.
There is indeed a big difference between nuclear weapons and nuclear meltdowns.
The effect of a nuclear weaopn is soon over - most of it's energy is released at the actual 'explosion'.
Tsjernobyl is a nuclear meltdown, and indeed, all area in a radius of 50 kilometres is quite devastated there. But 2000 square kilometres isn't that much.
I'm just pointing to the fact that the amount of nuclear meltdowns is quite small - 3, if I'm right, correct me if I'm wrong. Which makes the amount of casualties quite small. Compared to cancer, lung diseases and other caused by pollution.
(And global warming, but some people on this forum seem not to believe in it, so I'll leave it out)
Calendar "healing" times often reflect about 15 to 25 years, so obviously what a healing unit is doing is rebreeding a new generation of soldiers from women taken captive in local farm houses. They spend a year or two teaching the new recruits how to shoot.
True
But it works on a desert wasteland, a polar region and the middle of the sea too.
398. People who say Tsjernobyl is still devastated are idiots, fallout can be cleaned in a single year with enough workers and depending on the planet's gamespeed.
399. The Americans started global warming by dropping A-bombs on Japan.