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Old 03-28-2018, 04:55 PM
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The weather would certainly be different, since the nuclear explosions would both add energy to the atmosphere and add dust. A study from the American Geophysical Union in the middle part of this decade looking at a limited nuclear war between Indian and Pakistan calculated that the trough from 100 Hiroshima-scale detonations (about 1.5 megatons total) would be around 1 year after the war, with the temperature dropping about 1.5 degree Celsius and rainfall dropping by about 100mm (4 inches) on an annual basis, and it would take over two decades for those to slowly return to normal. Agriculture would be highly disrupted due to cooler temperatures, lower rainfall (6% globally the first year, declining to 9% in year 5, then slowly recovering until it's just below normal in year 26), reduced sunlight (8% in year 1, improving to 3% in year 10 and normal in year 20), particularly in North America, Europe, and Asia, where the temperature drop would be between 1 and 4 C during the summer, shortening the growing season by 10-40 days. Larger-scale conflicts, such as the Twilight War, would be worse.
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