Why It's Impossible To Win a Nuclear War
Nuclear war is a terrifying existential threat, but we shouldn't only fear the blasts because the ensuing smoke is the real killer.
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Show Notes
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Black carbon: groups of linked carbon atoms.
- Fallout: radioactive particles that are carried into the atmosphere after a nuclear explosion or accident and gradually fall back as dust or in precipitation.
- Jet stream: a narrow variable band of very strong predominantly westerly air currents encircling the globe several miles above the earth.
- Radiation: the emission of energy as electromagnetic waves or as moving subatomic particles, especially high-energy particles which cause ionization.
- Weapon yield: the amount of energy released when that particular nuclear weapon is detonated, usually expressed as a TNT equivalent.
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