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The paper estimates the impact of a nuclear Pakistan and India may have 400-500

exchange between India and Pakistan. Not nuclear weapons by 2025 with yields from

only would this cause enormous regional 12 kilotons to a few hundred kilotons.

devastation, but it would also have a

catastrophic effect on the entire globe. If India uses 100 strategic weapons to

attack urban areas and Pakistan uses 150
The Research was carried out carried out by weapons, 50-125 million people would die..

researchers from the University of Smoke from the nuclear-ignited fires will

Colorado , Boulder ; Rutgers University- rise into the upper troposphere and spread

New Brunswick ; the U.S. National Center for globally within weeks.

Atmospheric Research etc.

Surface sunlight would decrease by 20-35

The research estimated that a war between % and lead to cooling of the earth's surface

the two nations could cause between 50 by 2-5 deg C . Precipitation would reduce by

million and 125 million deaths 15-30 % . Recovery would take more than 10

within days of a nuclear years . Production of primary food in Land
exchange. and Oceans will decline by 15 % , leading to

global starvation

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