Ah, nukes, how quickly we forget.

Still, cockroaches have survived four extinction events, and are still going to this day.

I would bet on the human species surviving even a “typical case” nuclear exchange. Whether civilization would survive it, and whether we could ever get to the world of internet and jet planes again seems much harder to fathom.

Now, hmm, how to make this bet? Perhaps we can meet in the afterlife? But that would require an afterlife. Hmm….