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In response to the buildup of U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals during the Cold War, a series of major scientific studies conducted in the 1980s issued warnings about the potential for a "nuclear winter" scenario - the possibility that a large-scale nuclear exchange could inject massive amounts of soot and particulates into the upper atmosphere that would block incoming solar radiation and cause major ecosystem and societal disruptions. -In the decades since that concept emerged, profound military, political, and technological changes have reshaped the nuclear landscape, while scientific advances have deepened the understanding of, and ability to model, Earth system processes. It is in this context that the U.S. Congress asked for this report to re-examine the potential environmental, social, and economic effects that could unfold over the weeks to decades after a nuclear war.-The effects of any given nuclear exchange would depend on key processes and interactions along a causal pathway with six stages: • Weapon employment scenarios and effects; • Fire dynamics and emissions; • Plume rise, fate, and transport; • Physical Earth system impacts; • Ecosystem impacts; • Socioeconomic im

Who reads Potential Environmental Effects of Nuclear War?

Author

National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine

Publisher

National Academies Press

Published

2025

Language

EN

ISBN

9780309716178

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Physics, Nuclear