Ivana Hughes

And then as a consequence of this, for a period of about, again, depends on how many warheads, what energy yields and so on.

But for a period of up to about 10 years, temperatures would drop so significantly

Some estimates for the war that I keep citing of one third of US and Russian arsenals are used up.

The estimate is 10 to 15 degrees Celsius.

That's about 18 to 27 degrees Fahrenheit.

This is a completely different planet.

And those temperature drops occur very, very quickly, right?

And so the temperature drop, what it does is it actually makes it impossible for food to grow, in particular in, you know, in the northern hemisphere, in kind of our bread basket latitudes and areas.

Food just begins to, stops growing.

Agriculture begins to fail and people begin to starve.

And the estimates there, there's a paper that was published in Nature Food by Alan Robach and Lily Gia.

and their colleagues at Rutgers University.

According to that paper, this particular scenario where I said 360 million people would die from the attacks, they estimate over five billion people would die of starvation.

over 5 billion within two years of a nuclear war from starvation all around the planet.

And here's a kicker, actually.

The number is actually really more than 6 billion because when they wrote the paper, they based all of their calculations, simulations, modeling on a worldwide population of 7 billion.

We now have more than 8 billion people on the planet.

So that just quite simply means that

You're going to have an extra 1 billion people dying of starvation.

So it's really, I mean, this is quite simply, this is not, this is the end of human civilization.