"Small Nuclear War Could Lead to Cooldown"

[GreenPartyVoter]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Some of the scientists who first advanced the controversial "nuclear winter" theory more than two decades ago have come up with another bleak forecast: Even a regional nuclear war would devastate the environment.

Using modern climate and population models, researchers estimated that a small-scale nuclear conflict between two warring nations would cause 3 million to 17 million immediate casualties and lead to a marked cooldown of the planet that could lead to crop failures and further misery.

As dire as the predictions seem, they fall short of nuclear winter. That theory says that smoke and dust from an atomic war between the superpowers would blot out the sun, plunge the Earth into the deep freeze and cause mass starvation, wiping out 90 percent of the Earth's population, or billions of people.

The new scenario offers no estimate of the number of deaths from the environmental effects of a regional nuclear war.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20061211/D8LUV0A80.html

[karlrschneider]

1. Well, there you go, the perfect solution to global warming!

Simple.








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[nadinbrzezinski]

2. In a game setting we were talking of this

scary

[Straight Shooter]

3. I wish they wouldn't publish things like this. It just gets bush all excited.

I think he gets giddy at the thought of causing mass destruction.

[antiimperialist]

4. Midgets would be the 10%

I heard the smallest organisms always survive.

[Octafish]

5. Midgets, cockroaches and the BFEE.

They need the midgets to do all the work.



Paraguay, anyone?

[TheMadMonk]

6. Smallest of the norm generally.

And in this case, might might make right.