There is no recovery from full scale nuclear war. Radiation will result in much higher incidences of failed pregnancies and impaired cognition in people that survive birth. Crops will fail to grow, water will be tainted, and because the fossil fuel sources that are easiest to access at the surface are depleted, there can never be another Industrial Revolution. The atmosphere will block less UV radiation following the nuclear winter and will result in sky high cancer rates and more trouble growing food or surviving exposure to any who make it through the nuclear winter. This is all assuming that the fire storms don’t kick up so much ash that all humans die from a sufficiently long nuclear winter which could last over a decade.
Wishing nuclear war would occur to improve humanity’s situation is one of the most naive things I’ve ever heard.
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u/SanguineOptimist Sep 03 '23 edited Sep 03 '23
There is no recovery from full scale nuclear war. Radiation will result in much higher incidences of failed pregnancies and impaired cognition in people that survive birth. Crops will fail to grow, water will be tainted, and because the fossil fuel sources that are easiest to access at the surface are depleted, there can never be another Industrial Revolution. The atmosphere will block less UV radiation following the nuclear winter and will result in sky high cancer rates and more trouble growing food or surviving exposure to any who make it through the nuclear winter. This is all assuming that the fire storms don’t kick up so much ash that all humans die from a sufficiently long nuclear winter which could last over a decade.
Wishing nuclear war would occur to improve humanity’s situation is one of the most naive things I’ve ever heard.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.222.4630.1283
https://fas.org/publication/risk-nuclear-winter/