Question

Some scientist have predicted that global nuclear war on the earth would be followed by a severe "Nuclear Winter".What might be the basis of this prediction?

Answer 1

The smoke and dust from these explosions would be enough to cover the atmosphere and block a significant part of Sun's heat from reaching Earth. This can be significant enough to cool down Earth for more than several decades. This along with radiation from the nuclear bombs will make life on Earth very hard. This is known as Nuclear Winter.

Answer 2

Some scientists have predicted that a global nuclear war on the earth would be followed by a severe ‘nuclear winter’ with a devastating effect on life on earth. What might be the basis of this prediction?

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The environmental condition post nuclear war will be very worst.

The war will result in formation of clouds in the sky all over resulting in the extreme winter conditions.

It will prevent sunlight to reach the Earth’s surface and the Ozone layer will also gets depleted.

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