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The fallout of nuclear fallout

Mar 17, 2022

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Concern has grown worldwide about where Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could lead. It’s a moment that can feel similar to growing up during the Cold War, when there was talk of nuclear winter, radiation and the atomic bomb. Today, the world’s nuclear arsenal sits at over 13,000 warheads and, unlike in the past, there is greater access to accurate images, video and information–but loads of disinformation, too.

The shockwave and heat that the detonation of a single nuclear weapon creates could end the lives of millions of people immediately but there are even larger impacts that would follow a nuclear war. Radioactive dust from the detonating bombs would rise up into the atmosphere and spread out over large areas of the world. The resulting nuclear winter would cause deadly levels of radiation. A worldwide famine would follow, which is now believed to be the most serious consequence of nuclear war.

HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI – LEVELED IN AN INSTANT BY NUCLEAR BOMBS.

77 YEARS LATER IT REMAINS THE ONLY USE OF NUCLEAR POWER FOR WARFARE.

BUT ITS DEVASTATING POTENTIAL HAS GROWN. AND WITH AN ESTIMATED 13 THOUSAND NUCLEAR WARHEADS LEFT IN THE WORLD – WHAT WOULD THE IMPACT OF A MODERN NUCLEAR WAR BE?

ASIDE FROM THE IMMEDIATE LOSS OF LIFE, LAND, AND PEOPLE’S HOMES – AN EVEN LARGER DEVASTATION WOULD FOLLOW

RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT – WHERE DUST FROM A DETONATED BOMB WOULD RISE INTO THE ATMOSPHERE AND SPREAD DEADLY RADITION BEYOND THE IMPACT ZONE.

THINK CHERNOBYL GOIN’ GLOBAL

IT WOULD TRANSFORM THE PLANET AS WE KNOW IT –

BRINGING ON A POSSIBLE NUCLEAR WINTER – WHERE SMOKE RISES INTO THE ATMOSPHERE BLOCKING OUT SUNLIGHT TRIGGERING A ANOTHER ICE AGE.

TEMPERATURES WOULD FALL AND FOOD PRODUCTION WOULD FAIL CAUSING BILLIONS OF PEOPLE TO STARVE

IT’S CLEAR A NUCLEAR CONFLICT COULD VERY WELL BE HUMANITY’S CURTAIN CALL.

BUT NOW THAT YOU’VE WATCHED OUR THREE PART SERIES – DO YOU THINK IT’S WITHIN THE REALM OF POSSIBILITY?

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