Nuclear Winter

Nuclear winter is a severe and prolonged global climatic cooling effect hypothesized to occur after widespread firestorms following a nuclear war. The hypothesis is based on the fact that such fires can inject soot into the stratosphere, where it can block some direct sunlight from reaching the surface of the Earth. It is speculated that the resulting cooling would lead to widespread crop failure and famine. When developing computer models of nuclear-winter scenarios, researchers use the conventional bombing of Hamburg, and the Hiroshima firestorm in World War II as example cases where soot might have been injected into the stratosphere, …

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SGR: Scientists for Global Responsibility · 11 April 2024 English

The enormous explosion arises as a small amount of matter is converted into energy as defined by the famous equation e = m x c2 where e is the energy …

nuclear war, including the possibility of a ‘nuclear winter’. [50] These studies pointed out that exploding


American Academy of Arts and Sciences · 7 March 2024 English

A publication of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences that explores the traditional nuclear arms control regime, how it has become fractured over time, and the ways in which …

to cause fires that could plausibly lead to nuclear winter.130 Restraints necessary to fulfill such a


CAPS: Centre for Air Power Studies · 14 February 2024 English

The film using nuclear weapons first; ending the weapons first; ending the did indeed make a big President’s sole authority to launch a President’s sole authority to splash and sparked …

billions of deaths now brandishing their own from “nuclear winter”—the less media access ultimate weapons of usual dose of nuclear madness. “Although Joe “nuclear winter” would indeed follow—in Biden during his presidential


CAPS: Centre for Air Power Studies · 1 January 2024 English

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CAPS: Centre for Air Power Studies · 1 December 2023 English

economic, and social systems that have increased the siz. [...] Of course, the scale of a possible nuclear winter will be determined by the scale of the nuclear war, the extent of firestorms generated, the amount

sun and leads to cooling and variations of nuclear winter. We also know from Hiroshima and Nagasaki that renewed focus of research since 2007 on the nuclear winter scenarios has been possible with far more powerful sunlight. Of course, the scale of a possible nuclear winter will be determined by the scale of the nuclear Bardeen, C. G.(2023). Opinion: How fear of nuclear winter has helped save the world, so far. Atmospheric


ELN: European Leadership Network · 27 November 2023 English

This project is funded by: 2 The inadmissibility of nuclear threats within the NPT regime Introduction The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) is regarded as the cornerstone …

hundred nuclear weapons would suffice to cause nuclear winter resulting in the starvation of up to two billion


SGR: Scientists for Global Responsibility · 9 November 2023 English

all current ‘active’ US-Russian weapons Scenario 3 (Brown) – ‘global-high’ nuclear war, e.g. [...] mid-2000s weapons level • 3 nuclear war scenarios and the resultant ‘global cooling’ 1. [...] 150 …

Climate disruption [Image credit: Gerd Altmann] 8 Nuclear winter: the key steps Smoke spreads out,  blocking Sun’s rays starve • For a summary of recent research on nuclear winter, see: Parkinson (2022) [Image credit: Alicja For UK nuclear scenarios, see: SGR (2015).  10 Nuclear winter scenarios • ‘Global‐high’ USA‐Russia war scenario  The threat from nuclear winter. Presentation. https://www.sgr.org.uk/resources/threat‐nuclear‐winter Parkinson S (2023) pdf Robock A, Oman L, Stenchikov G (2007). Nuclear winter revisited with a modern climate model and 


SGR: Scientists for Global Responsibility · 9 November 2023 English

Radioactive fallout over large areas - especially from nuclear reactors Even worse long term nuclear winter, ozone destruction, ecocide ‘civilisation’ at risk UK nuclear weapons One UK submarine carries

injured.  Terrible long-term impacts – 10 year nuclear winter. 2bn+ at risk.  Global nuclear war:  2000 from nuclear reactors  Even worse long term nuclear winter, ozone destruction, ecocide  ‘civilisation’


UN: The United Nations · 27 October 2023 Chinese

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(2023). 53 Richard P. Turco and others, “Nuclear winter: global consequences of multiple nuclear explosions”


UN: The United Nations · 27 October 2023 French

21 p. : tables

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