Is there anyway life could survive a nuclear apocalypse realistically?

The only such media I've seen is Fallout, which is obviously highly fantastical. I mean, they mutant animals and irradiated zombies running around!

But realistically, is there anyway that life could survive in a highly irradiated world?

Humans could possibly survive in shelters. Most surface life would be exterminated from the initial rise in radiation, but burrowing animals might have a better chance. Any animals that humans took into their shelters could also make it into the new world.

Obviously, humans couldn't stay in the shelters forever. I think the maximum time they could spend in there before they ran out of resources is a few months. They would have to venture out and reclaim the surface within a year at most.

Would it even be possible for humans to survive in such a world? I know they found this strange black moss in Chernobyl that not only can survive high-radiation conditions, but actually needs radiation to survive! Obviously, this means that something alive would still be here. And of course, arthropods are resistant enough to radiation there many species may actually survive to inherit the world. Of course, we obviously wouldn't see giant arthropods. Our world may just end up inhabited by nothing but strange black plants and bugs.

posted almost 6 years ago

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