Can cockroaches survive nuclear war? The truth behind the viral myth

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A city burns. Concrete cracks. Glass melts into the streets. Somewhere in the ruins, long after people are gone, something small crawls out from beneath a wall.The cockroach.For decades, pop culture has loved this image. Nuclear war wipes out civilisation, but cockroaches survive and inherit the Ear