At some point in history, there must have been more nuclear warheads than there were people living in Greenland

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Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago

What’s that I hear you say? I’m a hack fraud whose shower thoughts are stupid and have no evidence? I agree, so I did some digging in the literature and found the following:

A graph of the nuclear arsenals of the USA and USSR from 1945–2019.

A graph showing the number of nuclear warheads held by the United States and the Soviet Union from 1945 to 2019. Sources listed are Kristensen and Norris (2015) and the FAS Nuclear Notebook (2014–2019). The sum at one point is over 60,000.

A graph of the population of Greenland from 1780–2000.

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