Décembre 2006 / Guardian Unlimited (San Francisco)

Climate threat from nuclear bombs

Climate threat from nuclear bombs

Alok Jha in San Francisco

Tuesday December 12, 2006

Guardian Unlimited

Nuclear weapons pose the single biggest threat to the Earth’s environment, scientists have warned.

In a new study of the potential global impacts of nuclear blasts, an American team found even a small-scale war would quickly devastate the world’s climate and ecosystems, causing damage that would last for more than a decade.

Speaking at the American Geophysical Union’s (...)