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Nuclear Winter

In 1983, at a landmark conference in Washington, DC, Carl Sagan and a team of fellow scientists told the world about nuclear winter - the shocking and devastating climatic effects of all-out nuclear war in which the world would be plunged into prolonged darkness eventually destroying life on earth. Today, new research by some of the same scientists has found that even a so-called limited nuclear exchange could result in the decimation of global agriculture and mass starvation.

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Entries from March 1, 2012 - March 31, 2012

Wednesday
Mar072012

Nuclear Darkness, Global Climate Change, & Nuclear Famine

This website, created by Steven Starr, a senior scientist for Physicians for Social Responsibility, is available in four languages: English, Russian, Hebrew, and Chinese. The site describes the deadly long-term environmental consequences of nuclear war that threaten continued human survival.  Virtually any nuclear war, even one fought with less than 1% of the deployed and operational nuclear arsenals, will cause catastrophic disruptions of global climate and massive destruction of Earth's protective ozone layer, resulting in global nuclear famine.  The site also includes a photo gallery from Hiroshima, Japan, the first city in the world to be annihilated by an atomic bomb in 1945; there is also a nuclear firestorm simulator, which allows you to type in any address or city, select a weapon size, and then illustrate the size of the resulting nuclear firestorm caused by the detonation of the weapon.