Scientists have studied the consequences of an all-out nuclear war. Here are their conclusions | TVNOVINY.sk – TVNOVINY.sk

According to a new study, more than five billion people would starve to death in the event of an all-out nuclear war between the US and Russia.
In a peer-reviewed study published in connection with the ongoing war in Ukraine, climatologists from Rutgers University (USA) found that the consequences of such a conflict would be catastrophic for food production. “These data tell us one thing: we need to prevent nuclear war from ever happening,” said one of the study’s authors, Professor Alan Roebuck.
According to UN Secretary General António Guterres, this warning comes at a time when “humanity is only one misunderstanding, one wrong estimate away from nuclear annihilation”. Putin: Nuclear war would have no winner and should never be unleashed ​A new study in question, published in the scientific journal Nature Food, calculated how much sun-blocking soot would enter the atmosphere as a result of a firestorm caused by a nuclear explosion. Six scenarios The experts considered six scenarios involving nuclear arsenals of various sizes, five of which were based on smaller conflicts between India and Pakistan and one based on a war between the United States and Russia. Even the smallest scenario caused famine, with global average caloric output falling by seven percent within five years of the conflict.
In the worst-case scenario – an all-out nuclear conflict – global average calorie production would drop by about 90 percent in the three to four years after the fighting ends, the researchers say. Without food A huge drop in harvests would cause billions of people – 75 percent of the world’s population – to starve to death within two years, Sky News reported on Monday. The study uses “state-of-the-art climate, crop and fisheries models” to “calculate how the world’s food availability could change under different nuclear war scenarios,” according to the research team. Watch a short video from August 8 on The Threat of Nuclear Conflict: ​