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Oct 20, 2022 · The overall global consequences of nuclear war—including both short-term and long-term impacts—would be even more horrific causing hundreds of millions—even billions—of people to starve to death.
- Limited Nuclear War
- All-Out Nuclear War
- Is Nuclear War Survivable?
- Climatic Effects
- Summary
One form of limited nuclear war would be like a conventional battlefield conflict but using low-yield tactical nuclear weapons. Here’s a hypothetical scenario: After its 2014 annexation of Crimea, Russia attacks a Baltic country with tanks and ground forces while the United States is distracted by a domestic crisis. NATO responds with decisive coun...
Whether from escalation of a limited nuclear conflict or as an outright full-scale attack, an all-out nuclear war remains possible as long as nuclear nations have hundreds to thousands of weapons aimed at one another. What would be the consequences of all-out nuclear war? Within individual target cities, conditions described earlier for single expl...
We’ve noted that more than half the United States’ population might be killed outright in an all-out nuclear war. What about the survivors? Recent studies have used detailed three-dimensional, block-by-block urban terrain models to study the effects of 10-kiloton detonations on Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. The results settle an earlier controv...
A large-scale nuclear war would pump huge quantities of chemicals and dust into the upper atmosphere. Humanity was well into the nuclear age before scientists took a good look at the possible consequences of this. What they found was not reassuring. The upper atmosphere includes a layer enhanced in ozone gas, an unusual form of oxygen that vigorous...
Nuclear weapons have devastating effects. Destructive blast effects extend miles from the detonation point of a typical nuclear weapon, and lethal fallout may blanket communities hundreds of miles downwind of a single nuclear explosion. An all-out nuclear war would leave survivors with few means of recovery, and could lead to a total breakdown of s...
Jun 29, 2023 · These intense explosions vaporize people nearby and cause fires and blindness further away. The fireball expansion then causes a blast wave that damages buildings, crushing nearby ones. The U.K....
- Max Tegmark
Aug 5, 2020 · Weather. Can nuclear war be morally justified? 5 August 2020. By Richard Fisher,Features correspondent, @rifish. Share. Getty Images. Was the decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki morally...
Aug 6, 2020 · The dropping by American warplanes of that first atomic bomb, code-named Little Boy -- and another, code-named Fat Man, three days later in Nagasaki — led to Japan's surrender on Aug. 15, 1945, and...
- David Welna
Those who oppose the bombings argue it was militarily unnecessary, [3] inherently immoral, a war crime, or a form of state terrorism. [4] Critics believe a naval blockade and conventional bombings would have forced Japan to surrender unconditionally. [5]
Supporters state that the atomic bombings were necessary to bring an end to the war with minimal casualties and ultimately prevented a greater loss of life; critics state that the bombings were unnecessary for the war's end and a war crime, highlighting the moral and ethical implications of an intentional nuclear attack on civilians.
