write a report on 'threats of a possible nuclear war'
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What Are the Real Threats Behind Nuclear War?
Should a nuclear strike ever occur, it's likely to cause some extent of global cooling, called a nuclear winter.
Brad JonesJanuary 17th 2018
Nuclear Winter
In the current geopolitical climate, with tensions mounting between the United States and North Korea, the possibility of nuclear war is omnipresent. U.S. President Trump trades bombastic claims about dropping the bomb with North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un. The doomsday clock stands at two and a half minutes to midnight, the closest we’ve been to disaster since the 1980s.
Our understanding of what happens after a nuclear exchange have developed over time. Early studies using simple models suggested that the results would be catastrophic — a severe and prolonged cooling of our planet’s climate, dubbed nuclear winter. But subsequent calculations using more advanced models in the 1980s found that the aftermath might not be as bad as previously expected — more like ‘nuclear autumn’ than nuclear winter.
However, in 2008 a new paper in Physics Today examining a nuclear winter’s impacts suggested that the initial forecast was in fact more accurate. Moreover, the researchers determined that even a regional nuclear war could be enough to spark widespread crop failure, famine, and wider ecological effects for years.
“It’s still a threat, even though the superpower nuclear war — an exchange of thousands of nuclear weapons — is probably not likely,” Paul Edwards, a senior research scholar at Stanford University with a focus on the effects of nuclear winter, told Futurism. “These other scenarios involving a much smaller number of weapons are still dangerous to the climate, and therefore to us.
Should a nuclear strike ever occur, it's likely to cause some extent of global cooling, called a nuclear winter.
Brad JonesJanuary 17th 2018
Nuclear Winter
In the current geopolitical climate, with tensions mounting between the United States and North Korea, the possibility of nuclear war is omnipresent. U.S. President Trump trades bombastic claims about dropping the bomb with North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un. The doomsday clock stands at two and a half minutes to midnight, the closest we’ve been to disaster since the 1980s.
Our understanding of what happens after a nuclear exchange have developed over time. Early studies using simple models suggested that the results would be catastrophic — a severe and prolonged cooling of our planet’s climate, dubbed nuclear winter. But subsequent calculations using more advanced models in the 1980s found that the aftermath might not be as bad as previously expected — more like ‘nuclear autumn’ than nuclear winter.
However, in 2008 a new paper in Physics Today examining a nuclear winter’s impacts suggested that the initial forecast was in fact more accurate. Moreover, the researchers determined that even a regional nuclear war could be enough to spark widespread crop failure, famine, and wider ecological effects for years.
“It’s still a threat, even though the superpower nuclear war — an exchange of thousands of nuclear weapons — is probably not likely,” Paul Edwards, a senior research scholar at Stanford University with a focus on the effects of nuclear winter, told Futurism. “These other scenarios involving a much smaller number of weapons are still dangerous to the climate, and therefore to us.
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