Researchers create a simulation where they verify that a nuclear war could kill 5 billion people

In recent years the word apocalypse has gained great strength among the mass of conspiracy theorists and people of different religions, who predict that the end of humanity is approaching in the face of the growing manifestation of natural disasters, viruses and conflicts between countries in which potential start of a nuclear war.

If this disastrous scenario were to occur, the waves of terror would be impossible to understand; kilometers of land devastated and turned into ground zero, accompanied by a trail of hunger, radiation and therefore the destruction of the climate. And no, we are not referring to the plot of the next Hollywood movie.

All this is part of a simulation developed by a team of researchers Rutger’s with the purpose of studying the impact that a nuclear war would have today, this being a scenario that would not necessarily need to be caused by the dispute between two superpowers.

In this sense, scientists took as an example the geopolitical conflict occurring in the Kashmir region between India and Pakistan.

They stated that, if the launch of a nuclear weapon As a country-to-country attack measure, this would not only kill a large number of people in and around the target point, but also endanger the global climate and the lives of more than 5 billion people. as a result of the soot generated by the explosion.

And although this may seem somewhat exaggerated and of biblical proportions, the simulation was created from the atmospheric science.

So the soot and combustion debris generated by the detonation of a nuclear bomb would be enough to partially or totally cover the planetaccording to the results obtained.

This would later cause a acceleration of global cooling and a decline in the agricultural activity between 7 to 90 percent, depending on the magnitude of the nuclear conflict. Therefore, a nuclear war between India and Pakistan could have the potential to release into the atmosphere around 5 to 47 million tons of soot.

But the situation looks much worse when you recreate this scenario between the United States and Russia where soot production could reach 150 million tonsa fact that would cause a 90% drop in food production.

Despite the consequences that this hypothetical nuclear war could generate, the researchers point out that the simulation has been made from many simplifications and assumptions around how global food supply chains would respond during this catastrophe.

Likewise, there will be regions that will be affected to a lesser extent by this situation, being Australia will have the best chance of succeedingaccording to the devastation prediction map.