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I suggest playing around with this.
https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
it's a nuclear weapons detonation simulator.
You need to understand that it's profitable for the media to overly dramatize what nukes can do. Modern media profits from fear. In reality the destruction is very localized. Think of an area you are knowledgeable. Does the media portray anything you do correctly? As long as you are not in major target city or military base you will be fine. I had a 20 minute commute to the base I worked on. Turns out my house was outside the blast radius if the base was nuked. It wouldn't even break the windows.
FYI: I use to work for the army, I was on the peripheral of their prep for nuclear war. When you actually dig into the effects, it just a big boom. Meanwhile you have trucks and rail cars full of toxic material and poisonous gas driving through your town every day and for the most part nothing ever happens.
That seems pretty complacent tbh.
First of all even just the top 30 cities in the US are home to about 41 million people. Which seems a lot of folk to simply write off.
Also, the destruction of the major cities would cause huge/complete economic, social, infrastructural and legal collapse for the rest of the country.
Plus, even for those outside the immediate blast radius, there'd be the massive environmental impact of pollution to land and water, not least the potential for a nuclear winter killing off crops, and then animals.
Without knowing the size of the bomb, how could you know you would be outside it? Not that blast radius is all that matters anyway.
So you didn't even look at the link I provided?
It lets you select the warhead size and whether it is an air burst or ground burst. Also since the Cold War ended, most countries, except china, have opted for smaller warheads and better precision. Most rogue states can only manage a fission bomb not a fusion devices, the same goes for India and Pakistan. And a fission device is what is used as a tactical nuke by the major powers. It is what Russia is threatening Ukraine with.
So the most likely device to go off now, is about the same yield of one of the original ones used on Japan.
The doomsday scenario you describe will only happen if every nuclear armed power everywhere unloads their entire arsenal all at once. If that were to happen you still will not need to worry, because you will be dead. But I put that as a very low probability event. Putin doesn't want to die, Trump doesn't want to die, Xi doesn't want to die. Nobody is going to go there.