Nuclear Winter Would Be Even Worse Than We Thought

Despite once in real life (gratitude), the nuclear war has long become the main element of science fiction. Popular images of nuclear conflict – from such as biographical thrillers OpenHimer Disaster to imagine like Next dayRe -mention the understanding that the remands will be unchanged and catastrophic to modern society.

Surprisingly, nuclear war and its possible reactions are as much fiction as scientists as fiction writers. In a recent paper published Environmental research letterResearchers at Pennsylvania State University have examined how nuclear war could disrupt worldwide food security, especially in corn to focus on global production, The world’s most produced grain cropsThe In the worst cases, nuclear weapons will be destroyed in our atmospheric systems, gradually cut our annual corn production up to 87%, the survey has been warned in the survey.

For their imitation, the authors considered the 38,572 position for maize production throughout the six different nuclear war situations of increasing intensity. The simulations were under the Nuclear Conditions, an estimated climate scene after a large -scale nuclear war. In the nuclear winter, the black carbon will fill the sky from the fire triggered by the nuclear explosion, preventing the sunlight. According to scientists, decrease in global temperature can last more than a decade – long enough to reduce global agricultural system.

In addition to black carbon, writers examined the potential UV-B radiation exposure of the plant. The ozone of the earth usually blocks this type of radiation, but in the context of the nuclear war, this protective level will weaken. Since the UV-B radiation causes DNA damage and prevents plant saloxylation, researchers can affect the soil-incentive system on this energy source, which drives the growth of the crop.

The results were boring. First, a regional nuclear war, “the best case situation”, will release sufficient suit in the atmosphere to reduce annual maize production by 7%-which will obviously affect the worldwide food system, the top writer of study and the meteorologist Uni-Shi explained in one Press releaseThe A global war, on the other hand, will give a huge 165 million raw injection in the atmosphere, which will completely prevent the global corn production by 5%.

Not at all; According to the paper, the radiation will be damaged in “8 and 9 years” by following the initial explosion of the bomb, thereby reducing the yield of maize an additional 7%. “The explosion of the nuclear explosion and the formation of nitrogen oxide in the fireball stratosphere,” explained. It, combine with the heat-exploiting sot, injections to a burning cycle in the atmosphere “fast [destroys] Ozone, raising UV-B radiation levels on the surface of the earth “

Thanks, these are simply simulations. Nevertheless they “force our organism to realize the fragility of our organisms – the whole living thing is and how they communicate with each other and the environment,” said Shi. What is more, the study acts as a preceding, effective, effective response plan for a possible disaster, he added.

Hopefully, this disaster will not be nuclear – though it can be something like a volcanic explosion, which prevents sunlight the same and something we can prepare better. For example, the paper suggested preparing the seeds with the seeds that may grow under cool conditions.

“These kites will help maintain food production in restless years after the nuclear war, while supply discipline and infrastructure recovery,” said Armenian Kranian, an environmental system expert and a senior author of paper in the same notice. However, these kites can easily help food protection in the damaged region by serious volcanic activity, he adds.

Natural disasters are beyond our control, save for preparatory parts. A self-destructive environmental disaster and global scale famine-this is obviously another story. When it comes to nuclear winter, “the best way to prevent the destructive effects of it should be avoided,” scientists wrote.