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No, definitely not. During the Cold War more than 600 nukes were exploded in above ground tests (thousands more in underground detonations).
by Merad 4y ago
No, definitely not. During the Cold War more than 600 nukes were exploded in above ground tests (thousands more in underground detonations).
- twelve40 4y agoyeah but wikipedia says nuclear winter would come from burning cities emitting soot ("100 or more city firestorms"). All tests were done in places like Novaya Zemlya which barely has any vegetation, let alone big burning cities.
- credit_guy 4y agoWikipedia also says we've been through such an event at the end of Gulf War 1, when Saddam burned the Kuwaiti oil fields. There was absolutely nothing close to the nuclear winter effect. Sagan later conceded in his book The Demon-Haunted World that his predictions obviously did not turn out to be correct: "it was pitch black at noon and temperatures dropped 4–6° C over the Persian Gulf, but not much smoke reached stratospheric altitudes and Asia was spared." [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter#Kuwait_wells_in_the_first_Gulf_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter#Kuwait_wells_in...
- LatteLazy 4y ago528 (530 including Hiroshima and Nagasaki). https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/nucleartesttally https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/nucleartesttally And that's over 20ish years. 30 a year is a lot but it's not 3000 in 1 day...