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Nuclear war between India and Pakistan would 'destroy 99% of humans – survival is unlikely'
A professor has claimed that an all-out war between feuding neighbours India and Pakistan has the potential to destroy . . . well . . . pretty much all of humanity
An all-out nuclear war between India and Pakistan could destroy around 99% of humanity, a professor has warned. As tensions rise between the two neighbouring countries, the nuclear weapons capabilities of both are causing concern worldwide.
The nuclear-armed neighbours have downgraded diplomatic ties, threatened to suspend key treaties and expelled each other’s nationals. It’s the biggest breakdown in relations since 2019, when a suicide car bombing killed 40 Indian soldiers in Kashmir. India blamed Pakistan, and Pakistan rejected the accusation.
India has hinted at the possibility of an imminent but limited military strike. Pakistan says it would respond militarily. India and Pakistan have built up nuclear arsenals over the years. But their purpose is to stop wars, not start them.
India has a “no first use” policy. That means it will only retaliate with nuclear weapons if there is a nuclear attack on Indian forces or Indian territories.
Pakistan has a different policy, full spectrum deterrence, aimed at using tactical nuclear weapons to counter nuclear threats and conventional military attacks from its bigger, stronger and richer regional rival.
But should it break down into a full-scale nuke-flinging war, an unnamed professor has created a scientific model to show what would happen – and it's not fun.
Posting it on the Russian Telegram channel Pool No 3, they said: “A nuclear war between India and Pakistan. 47 megatons of carbon soot. This is not a product of the nuclear explosions themselves, it is caused by nuclear storms in megacities that are the result of airborne nuclear explosions.
“Like a bonfire on steroids, if a firestorm heats the air and the smoke rises, sucking in cooler air from the side, it creates storm winds that fan the flames, igniting anything that can burn, causing glass and metal to melt, turning asphalt into flaming liquid.
“This is the kind of firestorm that caused the atomic explosion in Hiroshima. And a megacity like New Delhi, with a hundred times the population, could create far more soot during a firestorm. The plumes of soot would go into the stratosphere, far above any rain clouds that could wash them away.
“More than five billion people would starve to death, including about 99% of Americans, Russians, Europeans, and Chinese.
"We don’t know how many people would survive a nuclear war, but I am sure that even if it is even slightly as terrible as many scientists think, the survivors will see it not as a failure of individual politicians or countries, but as a failure of all humanity, which failed its children as never before."
Great, life-affirming news.
Daily Star Sunday
A professor has claimed that an all-out war between feuding neighbours India and Pakistan has the potential to destroy . . . well . . . pretty much all of humanity
An all-out nuclear war between India and Pakistan could destroy around 99% of humanity, a professor has warned. As tensions rise between the two neighbouring countries, the nuclear weapons capabilities of both are causing concern worldwide.
The nuclear-armed neighbours have downgraded diplomatic ties, threatened to suspend key treaties and expelled each other’s nationals. It’s the biggest breakdown in relations since 2019, when a suicide car bombing killed 40 Indian soldiers in Kashmir. India blamed Pakistan, and Pakistan rejected the accusation.
India has hinted at the possibility of an imminent but limited military strike. Pakistan says it would respond militarily. India and Pakistan have built up nuclear arsenals over the years. But their purpose is to stop wars, not start them.
India has a “no first use” policy. That means it will only retaliate with nuclear weapons if there is a nuclear attack on Indian forces or Indian territories.
Pakistan has a different policy, full spectrum deterrence, aimed at using tactical nuclear weapons to counter nuclear threats and conventional military attacks from its bigger, stronger and richer regional rival.
But should it break down into a full-scale nuke-flinging war, an unnamed professor has created a scientific model to show what would happen – and it's not fun.
Posting it on the Russian Telegram channel Pool No 3, they said: “A nuclear war between India and Pakistan. 47 megatons of carbon soot. This is not a product of the nuclear explosions themselves, it is caused by nuclear storms in megacities that are the result of airborne nuclear explosions.
“Like a bonfire on steroids, if a firestorm heats the air and the smoke rises, sucking in cooler air from the side, it creates storm winds that fan the flames, igniting anything that can burn, causing glass and metal to melt, turning asphalt into flaming liquid.
“This is the kind of firestorm that caused the atomic explosion in Hiroshima. And a megacity like New Delhi, with a hundred times the population, could create far more soot during a firestorm. The plumes of soot would go into the stratosphere, far above any rain clouds that could wash them away.
“More than five billion people would starve to death, including about 99% of Americans, Russians, Europeans, and Chinese.
"We don’t know how many people would survive a nuclear war, but I am sure that even if it is even slightly as terrible as many scientists think, the survivors will see it not as a failure of individual politicians or countries, but as a failure of all humanity, which failed its children as never before."
Great, life-affirming news.
Daily Star Sunday