Nukes are not a meme AT ALL. Do you know what what a nuke does? It explodes, then releases dust into the air. It creates a fireball killing basically everything it touches. Then the bad part begins. The beginning, of the end. The radiation molecules come out, then infect the survivors with radiation poisoning. It really is one, if not THE worst way to go. They use a scale in kilotons. The higher the kilotons, the bigger the impact. For example: Little boy nuclear warhead: 15 kilotons Body count: 100,000. Fat man nuclear warhead: 20 kilotons Body count: 126,000. Ivy king nuclear warhead: 500 kilotons Body count: 453,370. Tsar Bomba nuclear warhead: 50,000 kilotons Was not ever used in combat.