Five billion people would die in a modern nuclear war with the impact of a global famine triggered by sunlight-blocking soot in the atmosphere likely to far exceed the casualties caused by lethal blasts. Scientists at Rutgers University mapped out the effects of six possible nuclear conflict scenarios. A full-scale war between the
Five billion people would die in a modern nuclear war with the impact of a global famine triggered by sunlight-blocking soot in the atmosphere likely to far exceed the casualties caused by lethal blasts.