Row 4237

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If you look into this research in some detail, the nuclear nature of the weapons is of minimal importance. The effect highlighted here is the result of two main factors:

1) by far the most important effect is the rapid incineration of modern cities containing many plastics. This is what supplies the black carbon (which in these particular conditions leads to cooling). This is analogous to WWII era firebombing in principle, but modern cities are larger and have a different composition. The heat of the thermonuclear explosion is also vastly more efficient at incineration.

2) The initial explosion can punch through the tropopause facilitating transport to the stratosphere, and thereby global dispersal and cooling. In many simulations however, the scale of the fires is often sufficient and the heat they produce enough to transport material to the stratosphere anyway. This is somewhat analogous to recent Australian wildfires.

I don’t think it is emphasized enough that these same effects could be accomplished in large part by other high energy or incendiary means. Governments are not known to possess any other devices of comparable power, but large scale use of conventional ordinance in a total war scenario might result in similar effects. A key source of uncertainty is we do not know what happens when large modern cities become targets for total destruction.

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