NUCLEAR WAR: THE CASE AGAINST

JUNE 9th, 2010

In news that is unlikely to deter Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, it has emerged that climate damage can be added to the list of drawbacks of a nuclear conflict. Even the smallest of nuclear skirmishes would result in 690m tonnes of CO2 being added to the atmosphere. Whilst some may argue that seeing as up to 17 million people would be killed in the result of a small nuclear conflict, the team behind this research has got their priorities out of wack. The point of this research though was to weigh up the human and environmental costs of different sources of energy. The team make the pertinent point that with the increase of nuclear energy around the world comes the increase of nuclear technology and ipso facto the increase of nuclear war.

source: Guardian

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