The question of what would happen after a nuclear war has lingered for the last century.
The results of a simulation that climate scientists created to find answers are apocalyptic.
It would be hard to comprehend the waves of terror. For a long time, there was death at ground zero. It's a lot of famine. A person is exposed to radiation. The climate is going to be destroyed. It's as horrible as possible.
It wouldn't take two global powers to cause mass death.
If India and Pakistan were to attack each other with a nuclear weapon, they would kill a lot of people, but the soot from the detonations would cause a lot of problems.
The Rutgers climate science simulation is based on atmospheric science. The study found that the soot from the blast could be enough to partially or completely encircle the planet, which would result in further global cooling and harm agriculture so much that there would be a reduction in food production from anywhere between 7 and 90 percent.
Between five and 47 million tons of soot would be released into the air. The global food supply would be cut in half if the US and Russia were to remove it. Within the first three to four years after a war, famine would lead to death at an incredible scale, and would add to the death toll of the blasts and their aftermaths.
There are a few things that the researchers did not mention. Figuring out how global food supply chains would respond during a nuclear winter required a lot of simplifications. Australia seems to fare the best on their devastation-prediction maps, even in the worst-case scenarios.
The Rutgers climate scientist who led the research said in a new release that she showed her son the map and he exclaimed "let's move to Australia."
The findings from this simulation are very different than a heart attack.
A lot of the people will be hungry. "It's terrible."
It's very difficult to argue with these possibilities.
Nuclear war between two countries could cause famine.