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Apocalypse Tech: Small Nuclear War Could Lead to Global Cooldown

An AP newswire article by Alicia Chang, via The Boston Globe, reports that:

Some of the scientists who first advanced the controversial "nuclear winter" theory more than two decades ago have come up with another bleak forecast: Even a regional nuclear war would devastate the environment.

Using modern climate and population models, researchers estimated that a small-scale nuclear conflict between two warring nations would cause 3 million to 17 million immediate casualties and lead to a marked cooldown of the planet that could lead to crop failures and further misery.

posted by Fergie @ 12/11/2006 03:11:00 PM