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What would a nuclear war look like - Sep22 final

26 Sep 2022

Microsoft PowerPoint - What would a nuclear war look like - Sep22 final.pptx What would a nuclear war  look like? Dr Stuart Parkinson These slides will be made available at:  Presentation given at Labour Party conference fringe meeting ‘What would a nuclear  war look like?’, organised by CND, on 25th September, 2022 1 Nuclear weapons – main impacts • Direct impacts • Heat •. [...] [image credit: MOD] 6 Nuclear winter: extreme climate change Smoke spreads out,  blocking Sun’s rays Plumes of smoke  injected into upper  atmosphere Temperatures drop  sharply, and plants die  Nuclear explosions  – humans and animals  lead to ‘firestorms’ starve • Extreme cooling (rather than heating from carbon emissions) • Change would be faster and larger than that due to carbon emissions • Ro.

Authors

Stuart Parkinson

Pages
9
Published in
United Kingdom