Nuclear War Scenarios Would See Billions Dead From Famine Globally

newsweek ^ | 8/15/22 AT 11:00 AM EDT | JESS THOMSON ON

[BenLurkin]

According to the paper, a nuclear war between India and Pakistan could send between 5 and 47Tg of soot into the stratosphere. Even more devastating, a U.S.-Russian nuclear war may produce up to 150Tg of soot, causing a nuclear winter.

When a nuclear weapon is detonated, the immense amount of energy released vaporizes everything within a certain radius, depending on the power of the bomb. Close to the epicenter of the explosion, it can reach temperatures of up to 180,000,000 F. These widespread fires and destruction, combined with the atmospheric disturbance caused by the shockwaves of the bomb, would cause large amounts of soot and other aerosols to be carried away by the atmosphere around the globe, blocking out sunlight.

Crops need sunlight to grow, with productivity dropping as a result of decreasing sunlight levels. The authors predicted that in an extreme 150 Tg scenario, we would fall short on worldwide calories required by 74 percent. For reference, adult women require between 1,600 and 2,400 calories a day, and men need 2,000 to 3,000.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations reported in 2010 that 51 percent of global food calories comes from cereals (which include wheat, rye, rice, oats and maize), 31 percent from vegetables, fruit, and other plant-based products, and 18 percent from animal products like meat, dairy and eggs.

[Bob Ireland]

Uh, Ben; the author and date are: BY JESS THOMSON |ON| 8/15/22 😏

[MPJackal]

“ causing a nuclear winter.”

So it’s the solution to Global Warming?

[GrumpyOldGuy]

I thought nuclear winters was disproven 30 years ago. That was all the rage back in the 70s or 80s, but I really thought it was later decided that it was not a real thing. Guess I can’t keep up.

[Lazamataz]

Do you see the beauty of it? The inevitability? You humans rise, only to fall. You, Avengers, you are my meteor. My swift and terrible sword and the Earth will crack with the weight of your failure.

[GOPJ]

Crops need sunlight to grow, with productivity dropping as a result of decreasing sunlight levels.

Wasn't 'nuclear winter' debunked decades ago?

[coydog]

Oh, it was, but people have the memories of goldfish and they dust it off and trot it out every time they need some convenient fear porn.

[BobL]

“A combination of the two might finally bring an end to a really stupid and brutal war.”

I think it’s somewhat wishful thinking at this point, but one can only hope you’re right!

[BenLurkin]

We’ll never know until we try it. So...let’s give it a go, yes?

[BenLurkin]

Whatever you do....don’t click.

[SaveFerris]

Oh good

World War IV

Any way you (they) want it

✝️🙏🛐

[Sequoyah101]

News? Only to anyone who did not live the Cold War.

The time to panic was nearly 80 years ago.

[SaveFerris]

The CRM-114 was damaged by the fire

The missile detonation also cut the Teleflex drive cables.

[BenLurkin]

If we’d had the war during the Cuban crisis the world might be a better place today.

[entropy12]

Nuking Hiroshima did not seem to cause any permanent damage. Today it is a shining city on the hill! No homeless camps and no poop on the side walks.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Randall Clark?

[gundog]

”I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed.”

[BenLurkin]

That’s the good news.

The bad news is that the Hiroshima bomb was tiny by today’s standards.

[central_va]

I worry about the Japanese and the lack of racial diversity. It must really be holding them back. /sarcasm

[cgbg]

So that is what real civilized cities look like....

makes me wish I had been born Japanese.

[SaveFerris]

Since there are 17 million permutations it will take some time to transmit them all.

17,576,000 actually