What Would Happen in a Full Scale Nuclear War between Russia and the US. How would a nuclear war between Russia and the US affect you personally..

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By Future of Life Institute and Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, July 10, 2023
Future of Life Institute
Theme: Militarization and WMD, US NATO War Agenda
In-depth Report: Nuclear War
At no point since the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, has humanity been closer to the unthinkable.

All the safeguards of the Cold War era, which categorized the nuclear bomb as “a weapon of last resort”, have been scrapped.

It should be understood, that there are powerful financial interests behind the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) which are tied into America’s $1.3 trillion nuclear weapons program initiated under President Obama.

Although the Ukraine conflict has so-far been limited to conventional weapons coupled with “economic warfare”, the use of a large array of sophisticated WMDs including nuclear weapons is on the drawing board of the Pentagon.

Dangerous narrative: The NPR proposes “increased integration of conventional and nuclear planning”, which consists in categorizing tactical nuclear weapons (e.g. B61-11 and 12) as conventional weapons, to be used on a preemptive basis in the conventional war theater (as a means of self defense)

According to the Federation of American Scientists, the total number of nuclear warheads Worldwide is of the order of 13,000. Russia and the United States “each have around 4,000 warheads in their military stockpiles”.

Under Joe Biden, public funds allocated to nuclear weapons are slated to increase to 2 trillion by 2030 allegedly as a means to safeguarding peace and national security at taxpayers expense.

Biden does not have the foggiest idea regarding the potential impacts of nuclear weapons.

Michel Chossudovsky, July 10, 2023

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What would happen if a nuclear war were to be sparked between Russia and the United States today? Who would survive?

In our most scientifically realistic simulation to date, we show what a nuclear war between Russia and the United States might look like today. It is based on detailed modeling of nuclear targets, missile trajectories, and the effects of blasts, EMPs, and smoke on the climate and food resources.

We have just announced the results of our latest grant program focused on the humanitarian impacts of nuclear war – see the list of projects here: https://futureoflife.org/grant-program/nuclear-war-research/

Learn more about the risks posed by nuclear weapons and find out how you can take action to reduce the risks here: https://nuclearweapons.info

Discover the full story of Nuclear Winter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuzH43J0mrY&t=0s

The 2022 Future of Life Award was given to 8 individuals for their contributions to the discovery of and raising awareness for Nuclear Winter. Learn about their stories:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEwNWBnlhlw&t=0s

See also:
Union of Concerned Scientists: https://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-weapons
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN): https://www.icanw.org/

- BIBLIOGRAPHY -
Here are the resources used in the video. These papers and data sources present the most cutting-edge science we have on nuclear war and its effects:

Nuclear arsenal data:
Hans Kristensen (Federation of American Scientists); The video shows 3,641 of 11,133 US and Russian warheads used, and none from the UK, France, China, India, Pakistan, China, Israel or North Korea.

Nuclear target model:
Prof. Sharon Weiner (American University) & Dr. Moritz Kütt (IFSH Hamburg)

Ballistic missile trajectories calculations:
Prof. Anthony Aguirre (UCSC) & Prof. Tegmark (MIT); In reality, MIRVs of course separate only long after launch.

Electromagnetic pulse modeling:
U.S. Army unclassified report AD-A178230 (1994)

Blast modeling:
Prof. Alex Wellerstein, Stevens Inst. of Technology, https:/www.nukemap.org
Samuel Glasstone and Philip J. Dolan: "The Effects of Nuclear Weapons", published by U.S. Dept. of Defense & Dept. of Energy; Although the video mainly shows ground bursts to simplify visualization, most urban strikes are likely to instead be airbursts to destroy a greater area.

Atmospheric modeling of global smoke spread and lofting:
Dr. Charles G. Bardeen (National Center for Atmospheric Research) assuming 150 megatons of black carbon smoke

Smoke modeling methodology:
Joshua Coupe, Charles G. Bardeen, Alan Robock & Owen B. Toon 2019, J. of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124, 8522-8543
Owen B. Toon, Charles G. Bardeen, Alan Robock, Lili Zia, Hans Kristensen, Matthew McKinzie, R. Peterson, Cheryl S. Harrison, Nicole.Lovenduski & Richard P. Turco 2019, Science Advances 5: eaay5478

Nuclear winter temperature modeling:.
Alan Robock, Luke Oman & Georgiy L. Stenchikov 2007, J. Of Geophysical Research 112, D13107

Famine modeling:
Lili Xia, Alan Robock, Kim Scherrer, Cheryl Harrison, Benjamin Bodirsky, Isabelle Reindl, Jonas Jägermeyr, Charles Bardeen, Owen B. Toon & Ryan Heneghan 2022, Nature Food, 3, 586-596. https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-022-00573-0