As everyone reading this already knows, a war between two nuclear capable countries, doesn't just cause catastrophic damage to those two individual nations, with more than 100 million deaths, but the fallout would cause a "nuclear winter," which directly alters the entire world.
So, first the news that has brought about this article on "The end of the world as we know it (TEOTWAWKI)," and how two nations that have been engaged in multiple conflicts since 1947, could be the straw that breaks the camels back.
To see a history of said conflicts since the British ceded colonial control of the subcontinent in 1947, see "Timeline of India and Pakistan's military conflicts," over at USA Today.
On May 6, 2025 it was reported by a number of outlets that India targeted nine sites in Pakistan that India’s Defense Ministry said were locations where terrorist attacks against India have been planned.
Indian military officials said Wednesday that their forces targeted "terrorist camps" that served as recruitment centers and weapon storage facilities for Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed, another Islamist militant group, according to Reuters.
Pakistan has vowed retaliation.
"Pakistan has every right to give a robust response to this act of war imposed by India, and a strong response is indeed being given," Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif declared.
Ok, history of the two nations dealt with.
The video below is the one spoke of above, which details what would happen should India and Pakistan begin dropping nukes on each other, and the part which shows the effects on the U.S, and even Ukraine and Russia, known as "break baskets" begins on the "stage 4" portion which starts at the 3:09 minute mark detailing the global impact and the start of a nuclear winter which causes crop failures across the world.
This would not just destroy major crops but even back yard vegetable and fruit gardens meant to just feed a person or a family.
NUCLEAR WINTER........
Food supplies and starvation are not the only consequences of a nuclear war, but what is called a "nuclear winter," would cause widespread death and destruction.
In 2023, Forbes published a piece highlighting a significant lack of awareness among the U.S. and UK, populations in regards to a nuclear winter. While Forbes was worrying about nuke being dropped in the Ukraine-Russia conflict, the results of a study by the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER), give us a good look at how unprepared Americans are for the result of a nuclear winter, no matter the countries involved.
The headline, "No Sunny Days For A Decade, Extreme Cold And Starvation: ‘Nuclear Winter’ And The Urgent Need For Public Education," offers a glimpse into information not widely spoken about, so it is worth the read, though I will point out some key findings that caught my eye.
• Just 3.2% in the UK and 7.5% in the US said they had heard of “nuclear winter” in contemporary media or culture.
A “nuclear winter” would be the result of a chain reaction that would go something like this:
- Nuclear warheads striking cities would cause firestorms and send huge amounts of soot into the stratosphere.
- That soot would block out much of the Sun for up to a decade.
- Temperatures would drop around the world, leaving many places sub-zero.
- Mass crop failure. International trade in food suspended.
- Mass starvation of hundreds of millions of people in countries remote from the conflict.
- Soil and water close to where nuclear weapons were used would be contaminated.
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