New report reveals most nightmarish part of nuclear war. And it’s not the bombs

The most harrowing part of a nuclear war may not be the bombs and the radiation but what comes afterward, a new study has revealed.

The study from Penn State University scientists said that even a limited nuclear engagement would cause famine and mass deaths around the world and would have a significant impact on one important crop in particular, per the New York Post.

The report said that the damage would “extend well beyond the blast zones” because of nuclear winter, a nightmarish theoretical scenario that would occur following an atomic exchange.

“Nuclear wars would cause an unfathomable loss of life and genetic resources, but also a prolonged nuclear winter that would reduce agricultural area and productivity for years,” the report says.

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