Comments on: Study: Small Nuclear War Would Shred Ozone

Massive Fires From Even Limited Conflicts Could Devastate Atmosphere, Scientists Say

[connapa]

Yes, both the US and the former USSR did a large number of above ground testing in the early days.Fortunately (to use the term loosely) they were done over either ocean or in desert areas where there weren''t a whole lot of flammable things (trees, plants, houses, people.) Its the resultant ashes from burned life forms which will cause the destruction of the ozone, not the kilotonnage or megatonnage of the explosive devices themselves.

[glock4me]

Seems like the US, USSR, China, France, UK have done enough atmospheric testing from 1945-1975 (or so) to either prove or disprove this theory... assuming that someone was monitoring the atmosphere. Those were some pretty big bombs in the 1950s and 1960s (when poor guidance systems were compensated with large yields), but we''re still here.

Coppertone save us!!!

[naucoming4u]

OH MY GOD!!!

Wow, I''m tellin ya.... when a nuclear war breaks out... my first concern will be about the environment and all those pretty trees and flowers and how they will die a needless death!


N O T !

[missingamerica]

lollll...CBS is simultaneously running a story about Iran "touting its nuclear advances".

Gee, are we priming the pump for an invasion of Iran?

[missingamerica]

Genocide AND global environmental damage - it''s a conservative Republican wet dream. They''''ll do it just to show the CAN, that''''s how perverse these nutjobs are.

Posted by jumkey at 11:06 AM : Apr 08, 2008

The sad thing is half or more of the Republicans will get all suicidal when Jesus doesn''t show up to rescue them from the consequences of their arrogance.

[jumkey]

Well, let''s have one then.

We''ve been angling for Israel to have a nuclear confrontation with Iran for years now (or has Israel been angling for it? either way, no matter). And we already have a well-establish global warming denying infrastructure in place as well as the requisite sociopaths in power to do it.

Genocide AND global environmental damage - it''s a conservative Republican wet dream. They''ll do it just to show the CAN, that''s how perverse these nutjobs are.