Nuclear winter: shutting down the farm? Even a mild 'nuclear winter' could have devastating ramifications for feeding those who survive a nuclear war.

From: Science News | Date: September 14, 1985| Author: Raloff, Janet | Copyright information

Even if as many as 1 billion people in the Northern Hemisphere were killed outright as a result of a massive nuclear exchange between warring superpowers, four times that number would probably survive globally, according to Mark Harwell, associate director of the Ecosytems Research Center at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. And what awaits those survivors can be predicted only by analyzing how natural ecosystems and agriculture would respond to nuclear-war-initiated stresses.

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