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I'd say its fact. Considering we employed the Mutual Assured Destruction Doctrine during the Cold War. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction
This is actually not that relevant. The only question is whether humanity could survive a Nuclear Winter...
He didn't say "Wipe out humanity", he said "destroy the world". I'd say a global thermonuclear conflict would do enough damage to call the world destroyed, even if humanity wasn't utterly and irrevocably annihilated.
If I smashed your phone against a wall, you'd say I'd destroyed it, even if it could in principle be repaired.