Depending on how a nuke is detonated determines wether or not the land beneath it becomes a hopelessly irradiated wasteland for millenia. If you travel to Hiroshima and Nagasaki today you will find thriving, beautiful cities even though both cities were devastated by nuclear fire only 70 years ago. Just an FYI.
"The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality."