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🗓️ 25 August 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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A new study in Nature Food has revealed, once again, the unprecedented danger of nuclear weapons. Built on the foundation of decades of research, it’s about the climate change and global famine that would follow even a limited nuclear exchange.
The models are a terrifying warning. A limited war between Pakistan and India that uses just three percent of the world’s nuclear weapons could kill a third of the Earth’s population.
In this special edition of Cyber, we talk about the study, its implications, and what we can do to avoid tragedy. Here with me to have that discussion is one of the author’s behind the study, Rutgers University climatologist Alan Robock.
Robock will lay out what he and his colleagues found in just a moment, to help us understand what actions we should take is Dr. Ruth Mitchell from the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and Alicia Sanders-Zakre from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
Stories discussed in this episode:
A Nuclear War Between the U.S. and Russia Would Starve 5 Billion People
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0:26.6 | Hello out there on the internet. I am Matthew Galt, and this is Cyber. |
0:31.1 | I've got a special presentation for today's episode. |
0:34.2 | It's all about nuclear war and famine. |
0:36.6 | Here is me from a little bit earlier in the week, |
0:39.4 | explaining just what you're about to listen to. All right. Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us on |
0:44.1 | this, uh, this Twitch stream slash Twitter space. I'm Matthew Galt. I'm a journalist at |
0:50.5 | motherboard who covers nuclear issues among other things. So there's this new study |
0:54.5 | in nature food this month that's generating a lot of headlines. It's built on the foundation |
0:58.8 | of decades of research. It's about climate change and the global famine that would have |
1:02.1 | followed even a limited nuclear exchange. The models are terrifying. They are a terrifying |
1:07.7 | warning. A limited war between Pakistan and India that uses just 3% of the world's nuclear weapons could kill a third of the Earth's population. Today we're going to talk about this study, its implications, and what we can do to avoid it. And hear with me to have that discussion as one of the authors behind the study, Rutgers University's climatologist Alan Robuck. Robach will lay out what he and his colleagues found in just a moment to help us understand |
1:30.7 | what actions we should take is also with us, Dr. Ruth Mitchell from the International Physicians |
1:35.7 | for the Prevention of Nuclear War, and Alicia Sanders-Zackery from the International Campaign |
1:40.9 | to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. |
1:43.1 | Thank you all three so much for joining us this |
1:44.9 | morning, bright and early to talk about news. Happy to be here. All right, Alan, can you... |
1:50.2 | Great to be here. Alan, can you lay out what's in the study and why it's important? |
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