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Damien Broderick wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap=""><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/916">http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/916</a>
SYDNEY: Even a small-scale, regional nuclear war could produce as
many fatalities as all of World War II and disrupt the global climate
for a decade or more, U.S. researchers have found.
"With the exchange of 100 [hiroshima-sized] weapons as posed in this
scenario, the estimated quantities of smoke generated could lead to
global climate anomalies exceeding any changes experienced in
recorded history," said co-author Alan Robock, of Rutgers Univeristy
in New Jersey. "And that's just 0.03 per cent of the total explosive
power of the current world nuclear arsenal."</pre>
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<blockquote>Kucinich's knuckles hit the podium like a drumroll as he says
he will "cause the U.S. to work toward total nuclear disarmament...."
<a
href="http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2003/11/ma_562_01.html">http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2003/11/ma_562_01.html</a><br>
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