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Don't worry! If it happens we are totally screwed!

Here is why we are screwed from studies done at Rutgers, the University of Colorado-Boulder and UCLA. The following are the consequences of using 0.05% of the US-Russian nuclear stock pile or 100 Hiroshima bombs as in a war between India and Pakistan. Remember the Hiroshima bomb was in kilotons! Most bombs now are in megatons (a thousand times larger)!

If we used less, the effects would be less. That is little consolation!

1. 20 million people die from the direct effects of the weapons.

2. 1 to 5 million tons of smoke from burning cities quickly rise 50 km above cloud level into the stratosphere and the effects on temperature would be twice as large as those which followed the largest volcanic eruption in the last 500 years, in 1816, which caused "The Year Without Summer."

3. 25-40% of the protective ozone layer would be destroyed at the mid-latitudes, and 50-70% would be destroyed at northe...See More


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