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[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago (2 children)

One day closer to World War 3, I guess.

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[–] SeattleRain@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

Is anyone really alarmed, this was inevitable.

[–] basmati@lemmus.org 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Well time to find out if Iran has a nuke and if we get to solve climate change by inducing a nuclear winter(yes I know nuclear winter isn't real).

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

yes I know nuclear winter isn’t real

That's not a consensus view.

According to a peer-reviewed study published in the journal Nature Food in August 2022, a full-scale nuclear war between the United States and Russia, which together hold more than 90% of the world's nuclear weapons, would kill 360 million people directly and more than 5 billion indirectly by starvation during a nuclear winter.

Another paper published that year, from the Tohoku University Earth science scholar Kunio Kaiho, compared the impact of nuclear winter scenarios on marine and terrestrial animal life with that of historical extinction events. Kaiho estimated that a minor nuclear war (which he defined as a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan or an event of equivalent magnitude) would cause extinctions of 10–20% of species on its own, while a major nuclear war (defined as a nuclear exchange between United States and Russia) would cause the extinctions of 40–50% of animal species...

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