This is what would happen if a nuclear war happened. Also know the best places you can hide and survive the apocalypse.
Amid the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine and bombings near nuclear plants, a recent study has stated that if the war escalates to a nuclear war, nearly 5 billion people will die as a result of the direct and indirect effects of the war, according to Sun UK. Most people will die from the direct effects of radiation and the rest will die in the fight for food.
Scientists have stated that such a war would have a devastating effect on food production and would cause a massive famine, leaving billions of people to starve. Scientists at Rutgers University in New Jersey conducted a recent study into the effects of a nuclear war, the resulting nuclear winter and the places where humans are most likely to survive. .
Research shows that if such a nuclear war were to occur, it would result in the deaths of nearly 5 billion people from starvation in the years following the war, in addition to the direct casualties of nuclear war. Countries including the UK, US, Germany, France and China will be completely annihilated in the second year.
And where can you hide and survive? Countries like Australia, Panama, Paraguay, Haiti and Argentina will see no deaths even though all livestock species are likely to go extinct.
Professor Alan Robuck, of Rutgers University in New Jersey, said, “Everybody understands that the direct effects of nuclear war would be devastating, as we saw in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Our research shows how many people could die in the rest of the world because of the effects on climate and agriculture.”
The study was published in the Journal of Natural Foods, where scientists studied six scenarios involving nuclear wars of different scales. Scenarios include conflicts between India and Pakistan, the US and Russia.
