When the bombs stop falling, the face of the planet will change forever. For 50 years this fear has not left people. Enough for one person to click — and broke into a nuclear Apocalypse. Today, we have not so much experience. The Soviet Union collapsed, the bipolar world also, the idea of mass extermination has become a cinematic cliche. However, the threat will never go away forever. Bombs still waiting until someone presses the button. And new enemies will always be. Scientists need to conduct tests and build models to understand what will happen to life after the explosion of the bomb. Some people will survive. But life in the smoldering remains of a destroyed world will change completely.
Would rain
Shortly after the atomic bomb will explode, will go heavy black rain. It will not be small droplets, clearing away dust and ashes. It will be a dense black balls, like oil, and they can kill you.
In Hiroshima black rain in 20 minutes after the bomb exploded. It covered an area of about 20 kilometers around the epicenter, covering the area with a thick fluid that could atone for the accident of radiation 100 times greater than in the center of the explosion.
The city around the survivors, burned and robbed them the last of the oxygen. The thirst was unbearable. Trying to fight the fire, desperate people tried to drink the strange water falling from the sky. But in this fluid was enough radiation to start in the blood irreversible changes. She was strong enough to make the effects of rain was manifested to this day in places where he settled. If you explode another nuclear bomb, we have every reason to believe that the same will happen.
An electromagnetic pulse knocks out electricity
When a nuclear explosion occurs, it can send a pulse of electromagnetic radiation, which can cut off the electricity and knock out all of the network de-energized the city or the whole country.
In one of the nuclear test, the pulse sent by the detonation of one atomic bomb was so strong that it knocked out street lights, TVs and phones in the homes of 1,600 miles around. This, however, was not planned. Since then the company has developed bombs specifically for this task.
If a bomb that needs to send an electromagnetic pulse, exploding in 400-480 miles above the country such as the U.S. fails the entire electrical grid of the country.
So when the bomb hits, the lights go out. All refrigerators with food fails. Data on all computers will be unavailable. Even worse, objects that provide the city with water, will cease to apply drinking clean water.
It is considered that the country’s recovery could take up to six months. But this is assuming that people will be able to work on this. But when the bomb hits, they will not have to do this.
The smoke will cover the sun
Region near the epicenter will get a powerful release of energy and will be burned to ashes. Everything that can burn, will burn. Buildings, woods, plastic and even asphalt on the roads will be lit. Oil processing facilities — which were planned targets during the cold war will explode with fire.
The fires that will cover each target nuclear bombs are sent into the atmosphere of toxic smoke. A dark cloud of smoke in 15 kilometers above the surface of the Earth will grow and move forward, pushed by the winds, until you cover the entire planet, covering the sun.
In the first years after a nuclear Holocaust the world will be unrecognizable. The sun will cease to give their light to the planet, and we will only see black clouds covering the usual light. It’s hard to say for sure how much time will it take before they will disappear and the sky will again be blue. But during a nuclear disaster, you can expect that we will not see heaven for 30 years.
It will be too cold to grow food
Since the sun will be no more, the temperature begins to fall. Depending on how many bombs will be sent and the changes will be more striking. In some cases, it can be expected that global temperatures will fall by 20 degrees Celsius.
If we are waiting for total nuclear Apocalypse, the first year will be without summer. The weather, in which we are usually planting crops that will be winter or late autumn. To grow food will become impossible. Animals around the world will starve, plants wither and die.
But a new ice age will not. During the first five years of killer frost will be very disturb the plants. But then everything will return to normal, and in about 25 years the temperature returns to normal. Life will go on if we will be able to testify.
The ozone layer is broken
Of course, life will bounce back soon not completely. A year after hitting bomb some processes from atmospheric pollution, going to start blowing holes in the ozone layer. This is not good. Even a small nuclear war, which uses only 0.03% of the world’s Arsenal, we can expect up to 50% of the ozone layer will be destroyed.
The world will destroy ultraviolet rays. Plants will die everywhere, and living beings will be faced with the mutations in the DNA. Even the most stubborn of culture will become weaker, less and less able to reproduce.
So when the sky clears and the world is a little warm, growing food is an incredibly difficult process. When people try to grow food, will die whole field, and the farmers who will stay in the sun long enough to grow crops, will die a painful death from skin cancer.
Billions of people will starve
If there was a nuclear Apocalypse, will be held at least five years before anyone will be able to grow enough food. At low temperature, damning the cold and the exhausting flow of ultraviolet radiation from the heavens, few crops can survive long enough to be able to collect. Billions of people are doomed to starvation.
The survivors will look for ways to grow food, but it won’t be easy. People living near the ocean, are the odds higher, because the sea will cool down slowly. But life in the oceans is also poumenshitsya.
Darkness blocked the sky will kill plankton, a major food source in the oceans. Radioactive pollution will be spilled into the water, reducing the amount of life and making it dangerous for anyone who wants to try it.
Most of the people who survived the bombing, will not survive the next five years. Food will not be enough, competition many, many will die.
Canned food will be there
Among the few that can eat people in the first five years will be canned. Tightly wrapped packages and cans of food will be there, and in this fiction do not deceive us.
Scientists conducted an experiment in which he placed the beer in a jar and soda near a nuclear explosion. Outside the banks covered with a thick layer of radiation, so to speak, but everything inside was OK. Highly radioactive steel drinks which was very close to the epicenter, but they can be drinking. Scientists tested radioactive beer and made quite edible verdict.
Canned food is believed to be equally safe, and beer in cans. Also there is reason to believe that the water from deep underground wells is also quite suitable. The struggle for survival certainly turn into a struggle for control of the deep wells and the canned goods.
Chemical radiation will penetrate to the bone
Even with food, the survivors will have to fight the spread of cancer. Shortly after a bomb radioactive particles will rise into the sky and then fall to the ground. When they fall, we won’t even see it. But they will still be able to kill us.
One of the deadly chemicals will be strontium-90, which is cheating the body, posing as calcium inhalation or consumption. The body sends toxic chemicals directly in bone marrow and teeth, endowing the victim of bone cancer.
If we can survive these radioactive particles, depends on our luck. It is unclear how much the particles will settle. If long, you might get lucky.
If it’ll be two weeks before the particles settle, their radioactivity is reduced a thousandfold, and we will be able to deal with them. Yes, cancer is wider, shorter lifespan, mutations and defects often, but humanity is definitely not to be destroyed.
Will massive storms
During the first two to three years of frosty darkness, we can expect that the world will be amaze by the storm, which the world had never seen.
Debris sent into the stratosphere, not only will cover the sun, but also will affect the weather. He will change the formation of clouds, making them more efficient in producing rain. Until things get back to normal, we will see persistent rain and powerful storms.
In the oceans would be even worse. While the temperature of the Earth will turn into a nuclear winter, the oceans will cool a lot longer. They will stay warm, so on the ocean front will be a massive storm. Hurricanes and typhoons will wreak havoc on all coasts in the world, and they will rage for many years.
People will survive
Billions of people will die if a nuclear disaster is still going to happen. 500 million people will die instantly in the explosions of war. Billions will starve or freeze to death.
But there are many reasons to believe that humanity will survive. People will be a little, but they will, and that’s good. In the 1980’s, scientists were convinced that in case a nuclear war destroyed whole planet. But today we come to the idea that part of humanity will still be able to go through this war.
After 25-30 years the clouds will dissipate, the temperature will return to normal, and life will get a chance to start over. Plants will grow. Yes, they are not as lush. But after a few decades the world will be similar to the modern Chernobyl, in which grew a giant forest.
Life goes on. But the world will never be the same.
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