Цитаты из книги Nuclear War: A Scenario

In this post-nuclear world, the tiny-bodied, fast-reproducing species thrive, while the large-bodied animals—including humans—struggle at the edge of extinction.

After many months, the cold and the dark become less severe. The intense effects of radioactive fog and haze diminish. The toxic smog dissipates. Light from the sun shines down on the earth once again. And with the sunlight comes yet another set of lethal consequences of nuclear war. The sun’s warming rays are now killer…

For 10,000 or 12,000 years, modern humans have depended on agriculture to survive. Agriculture is dependent on the Earth’s ecosystem to produce food and supply fresh water to nourish people, animals, and plants. Months of cold and almost no sunlight after nuclear World War III triggers another series of fatal assaults on…

Normally ice-free coastal regions freeze over, leading to what modern geophysicists call a “Nuclear Little Ice Age.”

Scorpions as a species will likely survive nuclear war. Arachnida with book lungs have been around for hundreds of millions of years.

Small groups of people would interbreed to survive, producing offspring genetically compromised, some blind. Everything collectively learned by all of us, and all that has been passed down to us by our ancestors, would become myth.

Before this find, scientists’ general view of civilization was that science and technology had been born out of agriculture. Out of farming. That only after humans had learned to domesticate plants and animals did they transition from the nomadic hunter-gathers they once were to become civilized. To build communities and…

The concept of nuclear winter first caught the world’s attention in October 1983 when Parade magazine (then read by more than 10 million Americans) featured on its cover a spooky image of a darkened Earth and news of a “special report” inside, authored by one of the world’s most famous scientists, Carl Sagan. “Would…

Historian Lynn Eden, scholar emeritus at Stanford University and an expert on nuclear firestorms, explains, “Because the early fireball would be so hot, it would expand rapidly. By the time the fireball approached its maximum size it would be more than a mile in diameter.”