# Most effective cockroach elimination?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-effective-cockroach-elimination/655907>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 17, 2013, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-effective-cockroach-elimination/655907 "2013-04-17T03:39:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-effective-cockroach-elimination/655907/21 "2013-04-20T09:29:20Z")

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the idea is to nuke everything else so there’s nothing left for them to survive on.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-effective-cockroach-elimination/655907/22 "2013-04-20T14:11:23Z")

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Cockroaches are probably better able to survive the aftereffects of nuclear war than humans are. But they’ll still be killed by the bombs themselves.

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**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-effective-cockroach-elimination/655907/23 "2013-04-20T14:19:06Z")

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and unless you nuke _everything_, they’ll just keep reproducing and coming back so long as there is something to eat.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-effective-cockroach-elimination/655907/24 "2013-04-20T14:46:12Z")

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If nothing else is available, they’ll eat each other. The sole survivor of Planet Earth will be one very large and very mean cockroach.

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