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This is a huge misconception lots of people have with nuclear bombs. All modern nukes are around 0.5 megatons, so no modern nukes are Tsar Bombas. That means each nuke cannot wipe out more than a ~5 mile radius max.
Humans have already tested more than 2000 nukes and we're still here.
Not destroy the Earth. Destroy modern human civilization. Big difference.