Nuclear winter story. A crazy president is trying to solve the global warming problem and has successfully built a powerful H-bomb. The idea is to lift enough dust and soot off the ground and form a bright scattering layer in the upper troposphere and stratosphere. This is called the ""Nuclear Winter"" scenario that was originated five decades ago before the cold war. Let us assume that country recently has built the largest bomb in the history that is equivalent to 100 megatons of TNT per bomb.

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Kamryn Pollard

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10 May, 14:13

Nuclear winter story. A crazy president is trying to solve the global warming problem and has successfully built a powerful H-bomb. The idea is to lift enough dust and soot off the ground and form a bright scattering layer in the upper troposphere and stratosphere. This is called the ""Nuclear Winter"" scenario that was originated five decades ago before the cold war. Let us assume that country recently has built the largest bomb in the history that is equivalent to 100 megatons of TNT per bomb.

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Clarissa Holmes · Answer 1

A nuclear winter is a climatic phenomenon that would follow the detonation of several atomic bombs in the event that a nuclear war broke out. These bombs would cause firestorms that would raise smoke, dust and particles into the atmosphere that would end up in the stratosphere and eventually spread throughout the globe.

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That idea is far fetched, because even though those same particles would absorb sunlight, it would raise the temperature in the stratosphere and cause a decrease in temperature in the Earth's layer. Unable to seep the sun's rays, many plant species would die and this would affect the entire food chain.

In addition, that temperature rise in the stratosphere would destroy part of the ozone layer, causing greater exposure to ultraviolet rays. This would end up affecting health and further damaging plant species.