Experts found U.S. and UK public aren't taking the prospect of a 'nuclear winter' seriously enough, given the myriad of global risks.
, including just 1.6 percent in the UK who were aware of academic studies about the subject, and just nine percent of the U.S. respondents recalling beliefs about nuclear winter that was part of the cultural milieu in the 1980s.“In 2023, we find ourselves facing a risk of nuclear conflict greater than we’ve seen since the early eighties," said CSER senior research associate Paul Ingram.
is typically framed in terms of destroyed cities and mass deaths in the nuclear blast zones or from subsequent radiation exposure, but the threat of nuclear winter is just as catastrophic. This would lower global temperatures considerably and starve essential crops and plant life from the sunlight they need to grow, producing widespread crop failures and famine across the world.only works if the public and policymakers are aware of the consequences of a nuclear exchange.
When the infographic was not shown first, researchers found a larger number of respondents wanted the West to retaliate with nuclear weapons: 20.7 percent and 24.4 percent of US and UK men, respectively, and 14.1 percent and 16.1 percent of UK women, respectively.
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