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Regional nuclear war could devastate large cities and disrupt the global climate
12-11-2006 · EurekAlert!A small-scale, regional nuclear war could produce as many direct fatalities as all of World War II and disrupt the global climate for a decade or more, impacting nearly everyone on Earth, reports a team of scientists from UCLA, the University of Colorado at Boulder and Rutgers. The new results represent the first comprehensive quantitative assessment of the consequences of a nuclear conflict between small or emerging nuclear states.
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