Class blog for "The Unstable Nucleus" at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Sunday, February 27, 2011

"A real bummer"

So, you know how nuclear bombs are bad and all that? And how it would be really bad if a country were to use them? Yeah, turns out it would be worse than we thought. Like, "oops, there goes a large chunk of the ozone layer" bad. Over a quarter of the ozone layer in 2 years if 100 Hiroshima-sized nuclear bombs went off. My question is, how big are the warheads we've got in store today compared to the "Hiroshima-sized" ones being used to create this statistic? Anyway, here's the unsettling article:


http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/02/nuclear-war-climate-change/

-Caitlin

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