After taking my dinner, I laid on my back reflect on the days activities, experience, and people I had met. There was just one thought I couldn’t think over, “from the turnout of things how soon are we expecting a Nuclear Holocaust, what factors are responsible, is it even possible to be prevented, how would it lead to the extinction of man or worst of it all Extinction of life on earth.
Let’s imagine, you survive an heavy nuclear destruction of your family, how would you feel with all this love gone. Let’s take it up to the national levels and then how would it feel if the whole world is involved. Pactically no one would hesitate to commit suicide.
let’s know what a nuclear holocaust is
It hasn’t been practically experienced globally, hence most scholars describe it as a theoretical scenario with almost total destruction as a result of a nuclear or radioactive fall out from Nuclear reactions through weapons or utility. This would cause the earth to be unconducive for life.
How close is this postulated war
Two years ago (as of 2016), humanity had an approximate of fifteen thousand Nuclear Weapons, Thousands out of this number are on so sensitive to the lightest invasion (source calls it “hair trigger alert). Every nation possessing Nuclear Weapons are constantly refashioning their arsenals to become more deadly and devastating, this isn’t just a purposeless development, I believe they have skeletons in their cupboards.
Here is a quote from Wikipedia
John F. Kennedy estimated the Probability of the Cuban Missile Crisis Escalating to nuclear conflict as Between 33% and 50%. In a poll of experts at the Global Catastrophic Risk Conference in Oxford (17‐20 July 2008), the Future of Humanity Institute estimated the Probability of complete human Extinction by nuclear weapons at 1% Within the century, the probability of 1 Billion dead at 10% and the probability of 1 million dead at 30%. These results reflect the median opinions of a group of experts, rather than a probabilistic model; the actual values may be much lower or higher. Scientists have argued that even a small-scale nuclear war between two countries could have devastating global consequences and such local conflicts are more likely than full-scale nuclear war.
NB: It should be emphasized that this information is just a mere approximation by an intelligent scholar , but are based on very careful factors, observations and parameters. like sstated above a holocaust could have actual values much lower or higher.
With the rates at which countries like America, North Korea etc are more involved in the Nuclear business and simultaneous struggle for power, calling a Nuclear Holocaust probability is a little below certainty
How possible would it be for a detonation to cause extinction of human completely
i would also love to quote a source Physicist Leo Szilard warned in the 1950s that a Deliberate “doomsday device” could be Constructed by surrounding powerful Hydrogen bombs with a massive Amount of cobalt. Cobalt has a half-life Of five years, and its global fallout Might, some physicists have posited, Be able to clear out all human life viaLethal radiation intensity. The main Motivation for building a cobalt bomb In this scenario is its reduced expense Compared with the arsenals possessed By superpowers; such a doomsday Device does not need to be launched before detonation, and thus does not require expensive missile delivery systems, and the hydrogen bombs do not need to be miniaturized for delivery via missile. The system for triggering it might have to be completely automated, in order for the deterrent to be effective. A modern twist might be to also lace the bombs with aerosols designed to exacerbate nuclear winter. A major caveat is that nuclear fallout transfer between the northern and southern hemispheres is expected to be small; unless a bomb detonates in each hemisphere, the effect of a bomb
Many developing countries are very able to afford Such a cheap but destructive weapon. As we all know, country wars are veryy possible and rampant, and I also believe that at this rate if nuclear development and use, this battles may soon become Nuclear, as little asctge nuclear attack can be, will always affect the whole world.
Effects of a Nuclear Fall out
There are just three main effects that would ensure destruction of all life, let’s take it so far, in simple terms the effects are:
• Direct death and destruction by bomb detonations, this would also lead to other disasters lije the earthquake in earthquake prone areas.
• Nuclear winter
this is a kind of nuclear smog, this involves settling of radioactive particles at very high altitudes in the atmosphere causing deadly and mostly untreatable diseases. 99% o FC the 5% that would survive a whole heavy Radioactive blast would be flushed by the nuclear winter phenomenon
• Nuclear Famine
I don’t have to explain, we can all imagine this final effect.
personal comments :
I haven’t included a prevention or solution cause I can’t think of any capable enough to suppress the corrupted minds of man.
Even the laws of the world powers can’t prevent this, if there should be a prevention I believe it should be awareness, already as we know the Northern Koreans are heads up challenging the gobal powers, finally I would love some suggestions from my fellow steemians what do you think can be done about this havoc around the corner, who knows what we could change.
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