Is It Worth A Nuclear War?

Billions of Lives are at stake

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In 1936, Hitler’s forces seized the Rhineland. They annexed Austria in 1938. In response, at the Munich Conference, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain agreed that Germany could occupy the Sudetenland. This was considered a victory for peace, but Churchill and others warned that it would be a disaster. Modern historians tend to agree.

On the other hand, Adlai Stevenson said, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, “Perhaps we need a coward in the room when we are talking about nuclear war.”

Thanks to the ongoing conflict in the Ukraine and the rising tensions regarding Taiwan, perhaps now is a good time for cowardice? Because a nuclear war would be a true disaster.

What is the worst case scenario?

An exchange of nuclear weapons between the United States and Russia. This would lead to a global catastrophe.

According to a peer-reviewed study published in the journal Nature Food, even a small scale nuclear war between India and Pakistan would slash global food production by 7% and lead to the death of up to 2.5 billion people. The starvation that would follow a…