Nuclear Radiation Winter

It is speculated that the resulting cooling would lead to widespread crop.

Nuclear waste management ppt. Turco is the one who came up with the term nuclear winter the cooling of the planets surface under a pall of fine dust ash and soot left by the intense bombing of multiple cities. 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.

Life after a nuclear war revealed. Researchers from colorado studied the effects of nuclear conflict on earth. He and his teams research was the first to show how smoke injected into the upper troposphere by urban fires could affect climate over a wide area.

It is not certain that a nuclear war would produce a nuclear winter effect. Not only would explosions fires and radiation exposure kill millions in targeted cities but a nuclear winter lasting months to years would also drastically alter the earths climate causing. The extreme cold high radiation levels and the widespread destruction of industrial medical and transportation infrastructures along with food supplies and crops would trigger a massive death toll from starvation exposure and disease.

Computer models reveal earth would suffer a 20 year long winter and worldwide famine.