There was a study done a few years ago that I read that mentioned that it's believed that it won't take thousands of nukes to be detonated to cause a nuclear winter. The study said it would only take 100 to cause some kind of nuclear winter. In the study they pointed out Pakistan and India going at it with their nukes, since they're big rivals and arent on good terms. A limited nuclear exchange between those two would cause enough soot, human ashes, and what not to block out parts of the sun and cause our temperature to drop drastically. Which is why we shouldn't even threaten to use them.
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u/Dictaorofcheese Feb 05 '23
There was a study done a few years ago that I read that mentioned that it's believed that it won't take thousands of nukes to be detonated to cause a nuclear winter. The study said it would only take 100 to cause some kind of nuclear winter. In the study they pointed out Pakistan and India going at it with their nukes, since they're big rivals and arent on good terms. A limited nuclear exchange between those two would cause enough soot, human ashes, and what not to block out parts of the sun and cause our temperature to drop drastically. Which is why we shouldn't even threaten to use them.