Numerous studies showed even if it involves small-scale nuclear attacks environmental problems which humanity would be facing would be catastrophic. We would be talking about a nuclear autumn, or better known as chronic drought, which would cause the death of millions of species of fauna and flora.
This alone It would be the beginning of the end, because as a result, much of the sunlight would be lost. consequence of atomic explosions, Periods of low temperatures will shake much of the planet.
It seems that life in our beloved Earth not only It depends on the countries that have great nuclear power. as: The US, Russia, and China, but of those where there is a a high number of terrorist groups such as Pakistan, which he has under his power 120 nuclear warheads, or the very same North Korea, which has threatened to start a war nuclear. There is a latent danger that one of these countries could activate one of its missiles, bringing about the much-feared Nuclear Autumn.
According to scientists, A bomb containing a nuclear warhead would be capable of initiating a chain reaction which would bring chaos and destruction, annihilating a large part of living organisms, thereby causing an imbalance in ecosystems.
The summit of the earth
The Earth Summit This is the term used to refer to the United Nations Conferences on the Environment and Development. In their past meetings they made it clear that it is not enough to simply control the risks posed by fuels and pollutants globally, but There is a threat much more powerful: Nuclear weapons.
The leaders of the major powers have not commented on this matter, that is to say They do not want to alarm the world community with a high-profile issue., such as the nuclear power these countries possess. Despite this, US President Donald Trump stated that the US has a duty to protect the planet against dangerous governments that seek to destabilize world peace.
Causes and consequences
Studies previous They indicated that an attack on a city like Los Angeles would throw 5.5 million tons of ash and soot into the stratosphere.. As a result, the temperature global It would drop drastically; it is expected that in a few days it could lower to 10 °C, The plants would stop performing the chemical process of photosynthesis, and most of the vegetation would die.
A small nuclear attack, It would destroy the ozone layer of the entire planet, Although it would have a regenerative effect after a while, the sun's strong ultraviolet light would eventually kill the few living beings that survive the nuclear autumn.
A look back at our nuclear past
It seems that human beings possess an innate talent for quickly forget the consequences disastrous afterwards of a war. Well, it seems that What happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not have any major apparent consequences for the entire world., but only those who live with the aftereffects left by that attack in Japan, They are the ones who remember him daily.
What we don't know is what will happen if it breaks out a small nuclear war, would bring with it damage to the global ecosystem that will leave no living being to remember him in the future.
Since the dawn of humanity, Human beings have always unleashed big wars, which have resulted in millions of victims not only on battlefields, but also as a result of viral outbreaks and other diseases. It seems this is the tipping point of a scale whose mission is to decimate the world's population at our own hands. We have become predators of our own kind.
“Of the thousands of people closer to the center of the explosion, there was no trace; they disappeared. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so intense that they were instantly burned to ashes… except there were no ashes.” Wilfred Burchett
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