INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Five billion people would die in a modern nuclear war with the impact of a global famine — triggered by sunlight-blocking soot in the
atmosphere — likely to far exceed the casualties caused by lethal blasts.Scientists at Rutgers University mapped out the effects of six
possible nuclear conflict scenarios
A full-scale war between the US and Russia, the worst possible case, would wipe out more than half of humanity, they said in the study
published in the journal Nature Food, Bloomberg reported.The estimates were based on calculations of how much soot would enter the
atmosphere from firestorms ignited by the detonation of nuclear weapons
Researchers used a climate forecasting tool supported by the National Center for Atmospheric Research, which allowed them to estimate
productivity of major crops on a country-by-country basis.Even a relatively small-scale conflict would have devastating consequences for
A localized battle between India and Pakistan would see crop yields decline by an estimated 7% within five years, the study suggested, while
a US-Russia war would see production fall by 90% within three to four years.The study comes after the specter of conflict between the US and
Russia was raised following Vladimir Putin&s invasion of Ukraine
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned in April that there was a &serious& risk of nuclear war breaking out, Bloombergy reported.The
data tell us one thing,& said Alan Robock, the study&s co-author and a professor of climate science in the Department of Environmental
Sciences at Rutgers University
&We must prevent a nuclear war from ever happening.The post Full-scale nuclear war could kill 5 billion people, study shows first appeared
