People seem to have forgotten about the nuclear threat since the end of the Cold War—but the risk remains. In 2008, Physics Today published an article that explained the consequences of nuclear war. It concluded that 100 nuclear bombs would bring about a "nuclear winter" featuring the lowest temperatures in 1,000 years, while 1,000 of things would "likely eliminate the majority of the human population."
Now might be good time to point out that more countries than ever have nuclear weapons at their disposal: currently, nine countries are known to have nuclear capabilities, but only five of them are members of the safeguarding Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. With North Korea throwing rockets into the air like confetti, the nuclear threat is as present as ever.
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How will the world end?
Ficción GeneralLots of people had ideas that the world would never end, but now there's a book that gives crazy yet true ideas that could happen in 1.75bn Years! This has a lot of scientific words in it, so if your not a science wiz then I say go grab a dictionary!
