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- Unsurprisingly, a global nuclear war would be a civilisation-level threat, leaving over five billion people starving. In this scenario, average global temperatures would fall by 10-15°C for the first five years after the war, while sunlight would crash by between 50–80% and rainfall over crop regions would drop by over 50%.
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Jun 29, 2023 · W e know that an all-out U.S.-Russia nuclear war would be bad. But how bad, exactly? How do your chances of surviving the explosions, radiation, and nuclear winter depend on where you live?
- Max Tegmark
- Catastrophic Scenarios
- Widespread Starvation
- No Such Thing as A Limited Nuclear War
Conflicts between nuclear-armed powers are an ongoing concern in multiple parts of the world. If one of these conflicts escalated to nuclear war, how would it affect the world’s food supply? And how would the impacts on global food production and trade scale with the size of such a war? To try to answer these questions, we used simulations of the g...
Across all scenarios, impacts on the world’s climate would be significant for about a decade after a nuclear war. As a consequence, global food production would decline. Even under the smallest war scenario we considered, sunlight over global crop regions would initially fall by about 10%, and global average temperatures would drop by up to 1-2°C. ...
Behavioural change could avert some starvation after a relatively small nuclear war, but only regionally. We found that reducing household food waste and diverting feed from livestock to humans would lessen a regional nuclear war’s effect on food supply, but only in major food-exporting countries such as Russia, the United States and Australia. Alt...
Mar 16, 2020 · How a small nuclear war would transform the entire planet. As geopolitical tensions rise in nuclear-armed states, scientists are modelling the global impact of nuclear war. By. Alexandra...
- Alexandra Witze
- 2020
Aug 15, 2022 · Even limited nuclear war would kills billions, study finds - Los Angeles Times. Advertisement. World & Nation. Even a limited nuclear war could kill a third of world’s population,...
- Alex Wigglesworth
- Staff Writer
- alex.wigglesworth@latimes.com
Nov 17, 2022 · In Europe, a large-scale war could cause the Baltic Sea to freeze over and severely compromise food security – potentially for decades and even centuries to come.
Oct 20, 2022 · An airburst of a 300-kiloton explosion would produce a blast with an overpressure of over 5 pounds per square inch (or 0.3 atmospheres) up to 4.7 kilometers (2.9 miles) from the target. This is enough pressure to destroy most houses, gut skyscrapers, and cause widespread fatalities less than 10 seconds after the explosion. Radioactive fallout.
Aug 20, 2022 · Even a 'limited' nuclear war would starve millions of people, new study reveals. by Ryan Heneghan, The Conversation. Credit: US Department of Energy. Even a relatively small nuclear war...
