What do people mean when they say we have enough nukes to destroy the world?

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Are they just talking about erasing cities/mankind from the surface or the combined energy from them all is enough to significantly disfigure the surface? Or would it be the aftereffects of the bombs that cause the destruction?

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It’s not literally enough to tear the planet apart like a blast from the Death Star, but it’s enough to cause tens, if not hundreds, of millions of deaths, destroy vital infrastructure (communications, power), and basically ruin civilization as everyone on the planet knows it. Plus the radioactive fallout would ruin the local environment in *many* places.

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