From NewScientist:
Apart from the human devastation, a small-scale nuclear war between India and Pakistan would destroy much of the ozone layer, leaving the DNA of humans and other organisms at risk of damage from the Sun’s rays, say researchers.
Michael Mills of the University of Colorado at Boulder, US, and colleagues used computer models to study how 100 Hiroshima-sized bombs would affect the atmosphere.
They say that their scenario – in which each country launches 50 devices of 15 kilotons – is realistic, given the countries’ nuclear arsenals.
[Photo: A nuclear bomb is detonated in a test blast at Mururoa atoll, French Polynesia, in 1971./AP]
University of Colorado at Boulder:
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So if every nuke currently in existence was to launch….. total destruction of man kind? *sigh* that’s too easy…. so much for seeing the sun explode and lasting 5 billion years!
Anyhow, nice site! Keep up the great work..
May God have mercy on all of us if such should occur….good blog