A nuclear war between the United States and Russia will kill five billion people, new research shows.
Many of the deaths are not due to radiation or great hell, but from starvation where people compete for food in the fallout.
Analysis from Rutgers University suggests that the entire population will be wiped out of Munch shortage.
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Doomsday Created Nuclear Winter Throwing in several nuclear warheads in each direction would cause far more deaths in the years to come than the battle itself, they said.
Hotspots such as Germany, France, China, Great Britain and the United States will be flattened by fighting.
But beyond this, Boffin of Rutgers believes that most people in the world will die by the end of the second year.
On the other hand, some regions, such as Argentina and Australia, have weathered the conflict successfully.
Deaths are expected to decline in these countries, while international trade is likely to dry up and livestock to suffer.
This is mainly due to the growing abundance of more resistant crops such as wheat and the smaller population.
The study, published in the journal Nature Food , states that if this scenario were likely to materialize, "Australia and New Zealand would likely see an influx of refugees from Asia and other countries. will be seen," he said. food insecurity”.
Panama, Paraguay and Haiti were also all expected to do better than most of the world.
About 75% of the world's population could be wiped out of food shortages within two years, and about 50 to 100 million people are expected to die in the first battle.
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The horrifying consequences of such horrific violence left the study author with his one clear message.
"The data tells him one thing: we have to prevent nuclear war," said Alan, a professor of climate science and co-author of the study. Robock said.
Data show that the global food supply would be severely affected regardless of the scale of a nuclear war.
A nuclear war between India and Pakistan was the smallest possible scale according to Rutgers' analysis, reducing global food production by 7% of his.
The great war between the United States and Russia has turned out to be a terrible 90%.
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