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https://www.globalzero.org/blog/how-many-nukes-would-it-take-render-earth-uninhabitable

Michael Mills, an atmospheric scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado and the study's lead author, summarized it best:

n the 1980s, we learned that global thermonuclear war could render the planet close to uninhabitable. Now, we know that even [regional] nuclear war can cause great suffering worldwide, with potential for a lot of people to die from starvation in regions very far from a conflict.

A 2014 report published in the journal Earth's Future found that even a regional war of 100 nuclear detonations would produce 5 teragrams of black soot (that's 5,000,000,000 kg!) that would rise up to Earth's stratosphere and block sunlight. This would produce a sudden drop in global temperatures that could last longer than 25 years and temporarily destroy much of the Earth's protective ozone layer. This could also cause as much as an 80% increase in UV radiation on Earth's surface and destroy both land and sea-based ecosystems, potentially leading to global nuclear famine.

Underfunded ? Wow . Ya might want to check budget numbers .

J/C

Anyone who thinks we should "Respond in kind" and "turn NK into a Glass parking lot" is woefully misinformed or absolutely positively INSANE!

Do folks even understand what a "small regional nuclear war" could do to humanity?

Don't take my word for it, take it from an expert:



Do you understand even a small region such conflict will kill MILLIONS! Your not just going to sit at home and watch this nonsense unfold on TV, your most likely going to get sick and die, or your going to die of stavation, tainted water, etc even if your many thousands of miles away from the conflict, hell even if your on the oppositie side of the freaking world...imagine 25 years of no sunlight..

I mean have people really lost their flipping minds!? is the average US voter really this uneducated and stupid to think something like this would happen and they would just carry on life as normal?

LOL!!!!!!

LOL!!!!!!!!

if people think this we are so screwed.....so screwed....

It mentions 100 nuclear explosions, not 1 or 2.

The military budget has nothing to do with what the THADD system gets directly from that budget. You might want to take an accounting lesson. The military budget YUGEEEEE, the funds for the THADD system, grossly under funded. That was on Obama btw.

Trump just said that NK is getting hit with new sanctions.

Oh man, that’s really gonna get them in line now!!!

Anyway, I’ve stated plenty of times what I would do. But others want to bang on the drums of war so. This is a conservative decision since y’all run the country. Choose wisely.

Trump has repeatedly stated that South Korea should pay for their Billion Dollar THADD system, while the National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster has reassured South Korea that America will pay for a missile defense system, according to an official from the key U.S. ally. That's on Trump, who is not even on the same chapter let alone the same page with his own NSA.

It is for these reasons that the Obama Administration’s proposed budget for the missile defense program for fiscal year (FY) 2014 and beyond is so strangely disconnected from its recent announcements. According to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the new budget proposes to reduce the already inadequate missile defense budget of a bit more than $10.3 billion in FY 2012 to $9.7 billion in FY 2013, and down further to less than $9.2 billion in FY 2014.[2] Worse, the lower funding levels do not reflect the application of automatic spending reductions, called sequestration, in either FY 2013 or FY 2014. Sequestration, which applies a reduction of roughly 9 percent to the requested level across all applicable missile defense programs, projects, and activities, is already under way in FY 2013.

I think things are going just fine for now.

Rocketman knows if he goes to far, he dies.

Lots of talk but nobody got hurt yet.

I think you are taking him to lightly. Kim wants to be legitimized. He wants the sanctions lifted. He wants to know his dictatorship is safe.

Personally I think he has limits but will continue to provoke until he has nukes capable of hitting anywhere. At that point, he will be ruthless to get what he wants. We can't allow him to gt to that point IMHO, and he's dangerously close now.

You asked everyone here what their plan was to deal with it. Where's your plan to take Lil Kim out? Mmmm? You like to blast others and their ideas here but give no solution yourself. Typical

Reply to SWISH......
did I say anything about starting a nuclear war? Nope. Nice try tho again at putting words into someone elses mouth.

I immediately call a meeting with Armed forces heads, gather all data on this missile test. I then have a meeting with China and SK. Its time Un is held accountable for terrorizing the world. Seal Team 6 I am sure is ready to go. Get in, take him out. Free millions of NK citizens from oppression and starvation. Funny, you are against "oppression" yet do not care what happens to NK citizens under RocketMan.

PS can read perfectly fine.

Unlike your boy retweeting fake new stories about Muslims.

if he can hes better at hiding than Hillary is at sending an email.