Horror of nuclear war. What will happen in days, months and years after atomic bombing
The book Annie Jacobsen "Nuclear War of the Scenario" was published in March 2024 and was based on exclusive interviews with leading world scientists and nuclear experts. Researchers from all over the world describe a scenario of how modern civilization will fall apart after a person's hand rises above the "red button" of the nuclear installation. In focus. Technology has appeared its Telegram channel.
Subscribe not to miss the latest and most intrusive news from the world of science! On the pages of the book, scientists tell how a few days after launching the first nuclear warhead around the world, radioactive soot will fill the air for several months, causing temperature drops and preventing agriculture. In the event of a nuclear war, most people will not have time to take a few steps from the place where they will be struck.
Those who do not die instantly will survive on barren land, among forest fires, frozen land, radiation, lack of food, large -scale destruction and diseases. Jacobsen describes a fictional scenario that North Korea launches intercontinental ballistic missiles in the United States. Detecting launch, the US responds and nuclear war begins.
It is expected that in response to the strike of the States will launch nuclear warheads in Russia and North Korea, and then Russia corresponds to the same in the US and allied countries. As a result, thousands of huge fiery balls are destroyed, the cities are destroyed, and electrical networks and nuclear power plants fail - the world is deprived of electricity and energy, and radioactive materials enter the air. Tens of millions of people die almost instantly.
Forests, cities and crops are shrouded in flames, and fiery rings extend from 1600 to 3200 km from each nuclear epicenter. The buildings are burning, resulting in the materials that are transported by air, and the insulation and fiber, which are burned, release cyanides, vinyl chloride, dioxins and furan. These chemicals damage the organs and the nervous system, which leads to cancer, neurological symptoms and death.
Forest fires are raging everywhere, and radioactive precipitation kills coniferous trees and create fuel for future fires. Water supply around the world is broken, and therefore to localize the flame is just nothing. Radioactive products of mushroom clouds, including strontium-90, iodine-131, tritium, cesium-137, plutonium-239, poison the environment. This leads to DNA damage and leads to cancer, chemical burns of the retina and skin, bleeding, coma and death.
Anyone who managed to survive initial radioactive precipitation will start to die from radiation and poisoning that cause nausea, vomiting, fever, dizziness, disorientation, bloody vomiting and diarrhea, as well as internal bleeding and infections. The high impact of radiation in such a short period of time will cause the inner parts of people to dilute as their blood vessels decompose. As a result, some who will survive will suffer from chromosomal damage, blindness and infertility.
After a few weeks, natural gas and coal reserves in the earth's crust will still continue to burn uncontrollably. As a result, the incredible amount of soot will be thrown into the upper troposphere and stratosphere - the lowest and second lower layers of the planet's atmosphere. Soot will block the sun's rays, and the planet's temperature will fall sharply, preparing the ground for nuclear winter.
According to the climatologist Alan Workka, the density of soot will reduce the global temperature on the planet - the US and Europe will be among the most resilient regions. It is assumed that the temperature will not rise above zero for years, which will kill most of the animal and plant world. Prolonged frosts and lack of sunlight will reduce rainfall by 50%, destroying crops around the world.
Surwide people are likely to return to the stores of hunters, and millions will die from a lack of food. At the same time, survivors will have to fight each other for limited resources. The lakes will freeze and other water sources will probably be poisoned by chemicals of industrial enterprises.
After years of rainfall, when the world is finally thawed, millions of corpses that are died will poison water reserves, and those who survived along the coastline will find that filter molluscs have died through radiation or are now too radioactive so that they can be eaten. A few years later, the soot will settle, and the ozone layer will lose about 75% of its protective capacity.
As a result, sunlight will be able to reach the planet's surface without any filters that will cause fatal solar burns. Those who survive will have to look for shelters in caves and hollows. In addition, humanity will face the plague. Even when the temperature on the planet returns to a nuclear state, people of the future will still lead the lives of hunters-gathering and probably do not mention people who have met deaths at the hands of nuclear weapons.