One isekai webnovel I read had the protagonist constantly terrified of having his mind read by someone with enough knowledge to piece together nuclear physics from what little he knew via pop culture. Figured it would completely upset the balance of power in a world that didn’t even have gunpowder. He collected every mental defense item he could get and tried the best he could to avoid mind mages.
Then he got imprisoned and interrogated by a government official who was also the most powerful mind mage in the world.
They laughed at his concern. A high enough level fireball spell was already on that scale.
Tbf for an individual nuke, the contamination effect isn’t quite as extreme as pop culture sometimes portrays it. There’s a reason that, for example, Hiroshima was rebuilt and exists as a city today, rather than being left as a Chernobyl-esque radiological contamination zone where people avoid living to avoid exposure.
One isekai webnovel I read had the protagonist constantly terrified of having his mind read by someone with enough knowledge to piece together nuclear physics from what little he knew via pop culture. Figured it would completely upset the balance of power in a world that didn’t even have gunpowder. He collected every mental defense item he could get and tried the best he could to avoid mind mages.
Then he got imprisoned and interrogated by a government official who was also the most powerful mind mage in the world.
They laughed at his concern. A high enough level fireball spell was already on that scale.
Fireballs don’t usually contaminate the area …
Tbf for an individual nuke, the contamination effect isn’t quite as extreme as pop culture sometimes portrays it. There’s a reason that, for example, Hiroshima was rebuilt and exists as a city today, rather than being left as a Chernobyl-esque radiological contamination zone where people avoid living to avoid exposure.