This is really intriguing, explains a great deal about circumstances in European history.
A volcano erupted, leading to famine and the worst year in human history.https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/why-536-was-worst-year-be-alive …
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...and that's what we'll get, even after a small nuclear battle, somewhere, somehow
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Mmmmm... I can't help but remember that in late WW II, BOTH Churchill And Hitler refused to contemplate using nerve gas. And Hitler had the V2, a very effective gas vector and a lousy one for high explosive.
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Mostly because gases aren't effective in mobile war; they're ideal against massed troops, as in trench warfare... I feel that, in war, ethics go by the way side. They're only woven later into the narrative.
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As I recall, it was proposed to Hitler as a strategic move. A redux of gas attacks himself, he dismissed it out of hand. As tactical uses go, it's not of much use against modern military, see the relevant paragraph in Clancy's "Red Storm rising".
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Well, sure, but if it led to that amazing naturally formed geodesic snow dome then I'm all in!
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Puts the winter blues in perspective
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The worst year in human history? No... Don’t forget about the universality of the flood “myths”. If every culture tells the same flood stories, then maybe a big rock hitting the earth as recently as 12,000 years ago caused more than a few problems for humanity.
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As far as number of deaths is concerned, I think there was a year where all but 8 were wiped out.
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