How will nuclear war destroy Earth?

Witnessing the escalation of nuclear weapons around the world, scientists have produced a scary scenario for humans and the Earth if a day of nuclear war takes place.

Nuclear war, or nuclear war , is a war in which nuclear weapons are used. Unlike conventional warfare, nuclear war has a much greater extent and scope of destruction and has long-term consequences for years, even decades after the war.

A large-scale nuclear war can lead to the destruction of all life forms on Earth. And it is possible to "see off" our green planet back to its original, primitive times.

Nuclear weapons: Power or destruction?

So far, only two nuclear bombs have been used during the war in Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Japan) during World War II. Both of these bombs showed the world their tremendous destructive power and destruction.

But, not so that the stockpiles dropped, especially after the Cold War, the number of nuclear warheads increased dramatically.

Today, there are 9 countries in the world that own nuclear weapons, with a total of nearly 16,000 nuclear warheads according to the Association of Arms Control (ACA).

ICBM Titan II carried the warhead of W53 Mt, making it America's most powerful nuclear weapon during the Cold War.

Potential nuclear nations in the world

Given the potential difference between such nuclear states, a nuclear war, if it happens, can also be very different.

After all, the catastrophe of a war that happens, no matter how large or small, can have huge, multifaceted and long-term consequences for humanity globally.

How does nuclear war "distort" the Earth?

The researchers put the problem to the hypothesis of the consequences of a nuclear war at two different levels. They emphasize that this is only a hypothesis and not aimed at any country at all.

At a small level

Occurred in an area within a narrow area of ​​the country, in which each side detonated 50 small bombs (total 100 fruits) of type 15 koloton, equivalent to the bomb in Hiroshima in 1945.

The first disaster will be mass killing of people in the bombing area. This death is mainly due to mechanical reasons such as: Increasing pressure, strong wind from 250 to 400km / hour collapsing houses and electric posts .

Nuclear explosion causes increased pressure, strong wind from 250 to 400km / hour collapses houses and electric posts . (Artwork).

The nuclear disaster will kill hundreds of millions of people immediately. Not to mention, the temperature rises thousands of degrees causing fires throughout the region.

Subsequently, survivors will continue to be radiated by radiation beams scattered by the bombs, leading to premature death or long-term illness and slow death.

What about Earth and living things?

A small-scale nuclear war will cause the Earth's temperature to drop by 2 to 3 degrees. Annual rainfall also decreased by 9%.

With 100 detonated nuclear warheads compressing 5 million tons of carbon black into the atmosphere. It absorbs heat from the Sun, preventing them from reaching the Earth's surface.

The image depicts black carbon preventing sunshine and will cause death to humans.

After a while, black carbon will fall under the rain, but scientists cannot determine the exact time they disappear from the atmosphere.

After one year, the average temperature across the Earth will decrease by 1.1 degrees C. After 5 years, the Earth's temperature will drop by 3 degrees C.

But 20 years later, the Earth's temperature will increase and we are only 1 degree C cooler than before the nuclear war broke out.

At the comprehensive level

This level occurs when countries that use large numbers of nuclear weapons attack an entire country, including military and civilian targets. Such an attack aimed at destroying a nation's economic, social and military infrastructure through overwhelming nuclear attack.

This is one of the disasters that mankind destroys.(Illustration).

If a nuclear war happened on a comprehensive scale like this, it would make humans extinct. Or, only a few survived (those in remote areas) but with the standard of living and life expectancy is only equivalent to the period before the Middle Ages for centuries.

In addition, it will also destroy the ecosystem and make a terrible impact on the Earth's climate.' Nuclear winter ' is a hypothesis that American scientists introduced in the 1980s of the twentieth century. Researchers believe that after the nuclear war, Earth's weather and climate will be severely affected.

The nuclear war will make the Earth's surface temperature drop to a very large level.

That is, the great nuclear war will make the Earth's surface temperature drop to a very large level. Nuclear explosions in the air will make a large amount of " smoke " into the atmosphere.

As a result, the vast majority of solar radiation entering the atmosphere is absorbed by this atomic dust layer and the amount of sunlight that reaches the Earth decreases markedly.

The sky was covered with smoke and dust became gloomy, so the trees could not live, leading to the rapid reduction of oxygen, and the life died out.

Obviously, a nuclear war, though large and small, also has great and fatal consequences for people, not only within a warring country, but also a great influence. Even for all human beings globally; does not exclude a country.

Therefore, every day nuclear weapons exist, the obsession with making the Earth return to prehistoric times several hundred thousand years ago will always be present.