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NUCLEAR WAR WOULD BLOCK OUT THE SUN2010 LD Victory BriefsNUCLEAR WAR WOULD BLOCK OUT THE SUN.
"Nuclear Winter" Encyclopedia of Earth. Web.
25 Aug.
2010.
. A nuclear explosion is like bringing apiece of the Sun to the Earth's surface fora fraction of a second. Like a giant match, it causes cities and industrial areas to burn. Megacities have developed in India and Pakistan and other developing countries, providing tremendous amounts of fuel for potential fires. The direct effects of the nuclear weapons, blast, radioactivity, fires, and extensive pollution, would kill millions of people, but only those near the targets. However, the fires would have another effect. The massive amounts of dark smoke from the fires would be lofted into the upper troposphere, 10-15 kilometers (6-9 miles) above the Earth's surface, and then absorption of sunlight would further heat the smoke, lifting it into the stratosphere, a layer where the smoke would persist for years, with no rain to wash it out.
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