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Old 03-15-2009, 09:24 PM
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The amount of particulates thrown up depends a good deal on the type of nuclear detonations. Ground bursts generate a lot more airborne material than airbursts. We should be wary of overestimating the effects of burning cities on the climate. During the latter stages of WW2, a lot of German and Japanese cities were throwing up a great deal of particulate matter. The Earth did not experience a dramatic cooling. We are currently generating staggering amounts of particulates by burning forests and coal. The latter will stop, by and large, with the initiation of nuclear warfare. I’ve read a lot of opinions on what varying levels of nuclear exchange will do to the climate. About the only thing we seem to know for certain is that we aren’t capable of a Krakatoa-type effect.

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