Nikos talks about life after limited or full-scale nuclear war and mitigations
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Show Notes
Watch the video with slides at: https://youtu.be/y3lYUARfw-s
An in-depth look at recent research papers on the environmental consequences of nuclear war and some survival mitigations. This was pretty depressing work to make this.
Timestamps
Intro: 0:00
Relations can degrade quickly: 2:14
First impactful major nuclear winter study 1983: 3:56
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in December 1987: 4:26
Nobody wants nuclear war - Treaties 4:55
The thermonuclear bomb: 7:57
Have you heard of Gnomon and Sundial nuclear devices (gigaton)?: 11:12
Terragrams: 16:30
Limited Nuclear War Research (India versus Pakistan): 19:00
Full-scale nuclear war research (2008 paper): 25:32
Full-scale nuclear war research (2019 paper): 39:26
Some brief talk about prepping: 52:02
Topics I want to look at future videos 1:03:00
80s paper on Nuclear Winter: Global Consequences of Multiple Nuclear Explosions:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.222.4630.1283
Joint Statement of the Leaders of the Five Nuclear-Weapon States on Preventing Nuclear War and Avoiding Arms Races:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/01/03/p5-statement-on-preventing-nuclear-war-and-avoiding-arms-races/
2020 limited war study:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1919049117
Environmental consequences of nuclear war 2008:
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.3047679
Nuclear Winter Responses to Nuclear War Between the United States and Russia in the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model Version 4 and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies ModelE:
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019JD030509
Sundial Bomb paper:
https://thebulletin.org/2021/11/the-untold-story-of-the-worlds-biggest-nuclear-bomb/#%3A~%3Atext%3DSo%20a%2010-megaton%20bomb%2C20.3%20miles%20(33%20kilometers).
https://www.rbth.com/opinion/2016/01/05/nuclear-overkill-the-quest-for-the-10-gigaton-bomb_556351