There are more than 15,000 nuclear weapons on this planet, but to unleash a devastating nuclear winter it would only be enough to detonate a hundred. A video recently posted on YouTube shows the short and long-term effects of this climate phenomenon resulting from the indiscriminate use of nuclear bombs.
The concept of “nuclear winter” emerged in the context of the cold war, and predicted global cooling due to stratospheric smoke, which would result in a collapse of agriculture and the threat of famine for most of humanity.
The process would follow these steps: nuclear bombs would raise a huge cloud of dust that would be suspended in the atmosphere for months. This layer of dust would make it difficult or totally prevent the passage of sunlight, which would cause the death of living beings that carry out photosynthesis.
These beings, the producers, are the lowest link in the trophic chain or food chain, with which the other living beings would also become extinct: herbivores, carnivores and decomposers. In addition, the environment would be unbreathable, so many animals would die directly, not being able to breathe.
The video we show below is based on a study published a couple of years ago, where the researchers simulated the consequences of a hypothetical nuclear war between India and Pakistan: