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New Zealand may be relatively safer than Australia in some nuclear‑war scenarios because island isolation and local agricultural resilience reduce vulnerability to northern‑hemisphere fallout and glob...
If the hypothetical is that Australia is already heavily nuked and invaded, New Zealand is the relatively safer pick for overall survivability — largely because research flags New Zealand’s lower prob...
Experts and media in 2024–2025 repeatedly point to remote, agriculturally capable Southern Hemisphere countries (notably Australia and New Zealand) and isolated island nations (Iceland, New Zealand, P...
A measured reading of the specialist literature and recent modelling suggests New Zealand could be relatively safer than Australia in some limited nuclear-exchange scenarios — chiefly because New Zeal...
A comparative study in Risk Analysis ranked Australia first and New Zealand second among island nations for surviving an “abrupt sunlight‑reducing catastrophe” such as nuclear winter, principally on f...
A number of recent news stories and a peer‑reviewed study identify New Zealand (often paired with Australia) among the countries best placed to survive the agricultural and climatic aftermath of a lar...