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The American Institute for International Life, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, may have studied the effects of nuclear war on Earth’s population. Research, published in the journal Nature Food, examines six nuclear war scenarios.
A team of researchers led by Rugers University of Science Lilia Xia calculated how much ash will be created, how much global temperatures will drop and how food production is created under different scenarios.
“In a nuclear war, the bombing of cities and high-priority areas will cause firestorms, the fall of a significant amount of ash in the upper atmosphere, the ash will spread around the world and rapidly cool the planet,” the researchers write.
The US and Russia have 90% of their nuclear capabilities, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). A nuclear war between these countries will lead to a nuclear winter, famine and the death of more than 5 million people, more than 60% of the Earth’s population.
A possible nuclear war between India and Pakistan, which has less than 3% of its nuclear arsenal, could kill 2 billion people, researchers write. Also, a regional nuclear war can lead to the death of every third person on the planet.
The scientists hope that their work will prompt reductions in nuclear capacity, just as the opening of nuclear winter in the 1980s prompted the country to negotiate reductions in its nuclear arsenals.
In August, with the participation of representatives of 116 countries, a four-week meeting of the UN is underway, which aims to reach a consensus on the next steps in the field of nuclear arms control. The US has called for speedy negotiations on a new nuclear arms control agreement. About this to be US President Joe Biden.
Biden called on Russia to demonstrate responsibility in the field of non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, as well as Russian aggression in Ukraine. The current START treaty expires in 2026.
Biden stated: “Russia’s brutal and unprovoked war in Ukraine has destroyed peace in Europe and is an attack on the basic foundations of the international order. In this context, Russia must demonstrate the possibility of repeating work with the United States on nuclear arms control.” He recalled that even during the Cold War, the USA and the USSR cooperated on issues of strategic stability.
The Stockholm World Research Institute SIPRI explains that currently “the risk of using nuclear weapons is the highest since the Cold War.”
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 was “a shock to the international system that far exceeded the impact of other crises in 2021,” the annual research on Armaments and International Security, published by the Stockholm Peace Institute (SIPRI) on June 13. The researchers note that the importance of the war in Ukraine for international security is emphasized by Russia’s repeated statements that it “does not use nuclear weapons.”
For the first time since the Cold War, according to the Institute, the global arsenal of nuclear weapons is growing. As of early 2022, the 9 nuclear states were estimated to have 12,705 nuclear weapons, the report said.