This is what a nuclear war would do to the planet

Market Watch:

With the possibility of a nuclear war higher now than it was in the 1960s, talking about its destructiveness and consequences is an unpopular, but necessary, topic.

While it’s known that nuclear weapons can obliterate entire cities, eradicating millions of lives in the process, not enough has been said about the global, long-term effects.

So, what would happen exactly in the aftermath of a full-scale nuclear apocalypse? The current estimates, based on the model that simulated the effect of 100 nuclear explosions (each as powerful as the one in Hiroshima in 1945) on the climate, are rather bleak. Those who manage to survive the initial impact would soon find themselves in a world incapable of sustaining them.

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