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'Small' Nuclear War Could Trigger Catastrophic Cooling
2014-03-29 19:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Even a relatively small regional nuclear war could trigger global cooling, damage the ozone layer and cause droughts for more than a decade, researchers say. These findings should further spur the elimination of the more than 17,000 nuclear weapons that exist today, scientists added. During the Cold War, a nuclear exchange between superpowers was feared for years. One potential consequence of such a global nuclear war was "nuclear winter," wherein nuclear explosions sparked huge fires whose...
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