Catpone Cerberus

I learned today that there exists an actual conspiracy that nukes are not real. Where did that one come from? Did flat earth and ancient aliens become too mainstream for them? 

One of the funny things in conspiracies like this is that, even ignoring the huge amount of people you would need to somehow keep quiet for it to work, it really overestimates the competence of governments in doing things like that, and also ignores the whole concept of politics. Like, your government can barely agree with itself to do its job, how do you think a world-wide conspiracy would go  

And since I'm talking about conspiracies, my favorite kind of evidence is anagrams, and other kind of things where something a teenager could figure out brings out some word or set of numbers or something that "proves" everything.  Are you saying that some secret group like Illuminati, that is apparently smart and capable enough to control the entire world to hide that the planet is certain shape or something, uses puzzles of a difficulty level that you find in children' books, as secret messages?