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A possible 🇮🇳🇵🇰nuclear war will get nuclear winter to the world. A nuclear war between India and Pakistan, involving even a limited exchange of their arsenals (estimated at 160–170 warheads each), could trigger a catastrophic nuclear winter. The explosions would loft massive soot into the stratosphere, blocking sunlight, dropping...

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7 years ago Brian Toon, a professor of physics who trained under Carl Sagan, had a talk about what a nuclear exchange between India & Pakistan would do. The scientific estimate was that aside from those killed in the nuclear war, 1-2 billion people all over the world would likely starve to death within months. The social and political consequences of such mass death on a global scale would be unfathomable. Since this assessment was made, India and Pakistan have improved the quality and authenticity of their nuclear weapons and added scores of warheads to their respective arsenals. And India is now ruled by a government that actually fired nuclear payload capable missiles into Pakistan during the recent crisis. Since Pakistan had no way of knowing what the payload was until the missiles were neutralised or exploded, it was within its rights to use nukes. Which would be the end not just of India and Pakistan but also of much of human civilisation. Fortunately, Pakistan chose to risk absorbing a possible Indian nuclear strike & it turned out the missiles were carrying conventional warheads. But this restraint might not materialise during another crisis. Every country in the world needs India & Pakistan to start getting along. Not out of some pacifist idealism but because of the real risk to their own survival.

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Dr. Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, on what nuclear weapons can actually do to the planet, and what they can't: In a 1963 interview, Teller was asked whether the year's violent weather might be linked to nuclear test explosions. His response cuts through the panic of the era: "You know that there have been few things that have not been dragged in to explain the weather. And furthermore, there have been few disagreeable occurrences that have not been blamed on nuclear tests." But Teller doesn't dismiss the concern. He reframes it with scale: "In actual fact, nuclear explosions are far too small to change the weather. Much greater energy is involved in thunderstorms and in cyclones and in cold fronts than nuclear explosions could possibly produce." Then he pivots to where the connection is real: earthquakes. Underground nuclear tests, he explains, gave science something it had never had before: a known quantity of energy to compare against natural seismic events. "For the first time, we have a reliable figure for the actual amount of energy found in an earthquake." The interviewer pushes on the obvious worry. Could a test trigger a catastrophic quake? Teller is measured: "There is a chance that a nuclear explosion right on top of a fault that is ready to go off might trigger the motion of that fault… At any rate, nuclear explosions in areas which are relatively stable from the point of view of earthquakes will certainly not trigger them." Then comes the most striking idea in the interview. Teller floats a counterintuitive use of the technology: "Some people have even proposed that nuclear explosions at some time might be used to control earthquakes. Instead of getting tensions built up for 50 years and then making a big earthquake, a big slippage that destroyed San Francisco, one could have a little slippage, which is right harmless, once every year. Let us say on the 4th of July." He's quick to add a dose of realism: "But probably people won't consent, and furthermore, I doubt that it can be done." Teller closes with a vision that gives a name to an entire ambition of the era. Using nuclear power not as a weapon, but as a construction tool for reshaping the planet itself. "I am quite sure that large earth-moving, such as the building of canals, would be entirely possible. I like to call this kind of an approach geographical engineering."

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