Death Math: Here’s How Many People Would Die in a Nuclear War

Angry Planet

Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

4.3 • 882 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Tensions between North Korea and the United States are at a fever pitch. The DPRK’s nukes are scary, but once the first missile flies there’s no way to know who might join the fight and how it might end. That’s scarier.

So just how bad could it get? Would global nuclear war leave nothing alive but the cockroaches? We talked with Neil Halloran, who has literally done the math. The answer wasn’t what we expected.

You can see Halloran’s full analysis in his fantastic animated film:

http://www.fallen.io/shadow-peace/1/

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0:24.5	If one of those things did go the wrong way and if there was something, an accident that triggered a series of responses and it kind of escalated in that way you know our our telling of history about nuclear weapons and
0:30.1	how they they secured our future because of, you know, mutually
0:35.0	destruction, that narrative would be different. You're listening to War College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the front lines.
0:52.0	Here are your hosts, Matthew Galt and Jason Fields. Hello and I'm Matthew Gold.
1:07.0	War. I'm Jason Fields. And I'm Matthew Gold.
1:11.0	War, death and chaos feel like they're always increasing.
1:16.0	Kind of human entropy.
1:19.0	Nuclear war with North Korea looms over the horizon, at least of our imaginations. So what's the worst case? And is there
1:27.8	reason for hope? Neil Halloran is going to help us figure it out.
1:33.6	Halloran visualizes data in a unique way.
1:36.8	He illuminates dark subjects, the number of dead in World War
1:40.4	2, the likely casualties of a third World War using animation.
1:46.4	Thanks for joining us, Neil.
1:48.8	Thank you for having me.
1:50.9	So can you tell us a little bit about the Shadow Piece project. What is it exactly and where can people find it?
1:57.6	All right, so the Shadow Piece is a web series. It's available on YouTube or on my website fallen.io and it's going to be a
2:09.6	multi-part documentary each episode it will be maybe 15 minutes long and like the my
2:17.2	previous documentary the Fallen of World War II it's aiming to be a numbers first form of storytelling and so in the case of
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