#THE COLD AND THE DARK THE WORLD AFTER NUCLEAR WAR MANUAL#

#THE COLD AND THE DARK THE WORLD AFTER NUCLEAR WAR MANUAL#

Defense Nuclear Agency manual on nuclear weapon effects, scientific papers describing computer simulations of long-term effects published by groups ranging from the U.S.

Sources supplying the basis for this description include the U.S.

Note that the most severe predictions concerning nuclear winter have now been evaluated and discounted by most of the scientific community. Nonetheless, there is no reasonable basis for expecting results radically different from this description-for example, there is no scientific basis for expecting the extinction of the human species. after one year could differ from these figures by as much as a factor of four. are accurate perhaps to within 30% for the first few days, but the number of survivors in the U.S. Certainly the predictions described here are uncertain: for example, casualty figures in the U.S. There is much public misconception concerning the physical effects of nuclear war-some of it motivated by politics. This applies also to the global geopolitical aftermath, which represents the author's efforts at intelligent speculation. Some details, such as the time of attack, the events leading to war, and the winds affecting fallout patterns, are only meant to be illustrative.

This is in some ways a worst-case scenario (total numbers of strategic warheads deployed by the superpowers peaked about this time the scenario implies a greater level of military readiness and impact on global climate and crop yields are greatest for a war in August). For the purposes of illustration it is assumed that a war resulted in mid-1988 from military conflict between the Warsaw Pact and NATO. INTRODUCTION: The following is an approximate description of the effects of a global nuclear war. The Effects of a Global Thermonuclear War The Effects of a Global Thermonuclear War

The cold and the dark the world after nuclear war