When the bombs fall, the face of the planet will be forever changed.

For 50 years, that terror lingered behind every moment.

The world lived with the knowledge that one person just had to hit the button first and the nuclear holocaust would come.

The bombs are still there, just waiting for someone to press the button first.

Scientists have run tests and simulations to understand what life will be like after the bomb.

Some people will survive.

But life in the smoldering remains of a devastated world will be completely changed.







http://listverse.com/2017/06/23/10-brutal-realities-of-life-after-the-nuclear-apocalypse/

http://www.nucleardarkness.org/warconsequences/hundredfiftytonessmoke/

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Enormous blasts, fires created by nuclear explosions in cities and industrial areas will cause 150 million tons of smoke to be lofted high into the stratosphere.

The smoke is quickly spread around the world and forms a dense smoke layer around both Hemispheres; the smoke will remain in the stratosphere for many years and act to block sunlight from reaching the surface of the Earth.



Many nuclear warheads/weapons are on high alert and launched in 1-3minutes at targets around the world and detonated in retaliation for the initial attacks.


Hundreds of large cities around the world are engulfed in massive firestorms which burn urban areas of tens or hundreds of thousands of square miles/kilometers.


150 million tons of smoke from nuclear fires rises above cloud level, into the stratosphere, where it quickly spreads around the world and forms a dense stratospheric cloud layer.


The smoke will remain there for many years to block and absorb sunlight.



The smoke blocks over 70% of the sunlight from reaching the Earth's surface in the Northern Hemisphere, and up to 35% of the sunlight is also blocked in the Southern Hemisphere.


In the absence of warming sunlight, surface temperatures on Earth become as cold or colder than they were 18,000 years ago at the height of the last Ice Age.


*. 150 million tons of smoke in the stratosphere would cause minimum daily temperatures in the largest agricultural regions of the Northern Hemisphere to drop below freezing for years.

Nightly killing frosts would occur and prevent food from being grown.



*. Average global precipitation would be reduced by 45% due to the prolonged cold.


*. Growing seasons would be virtually eliminated for many years.



*. Massive destruction of the protective ozone layer would also occur, allowing intense levels of dangerous UV light to penetrate the atmosphere and reach the surface of the Earth.



*. Massive amounts of radioactive fallout would be generated and spread both locally and globally.



The targeting of nuclear reactors would significantly increase fallout of long-lived isotopes.



*. Gigantic ground-hugging clouds of toxic smoke would be released from the fires; enormous quantities of industrial chemicals would also enter the environment.



*. It would be impossible for many living things to survive the extreme rapidity and degree of changes in temperature and precipitation, combined with drastic increases in UV light, massive radioactive fallout, and massive releases of toxins and industrial chemicals.



*. Already stressed land and marine ecosystems would collapse.



*. Unable to grow food, most humans would starve to death.



*. A mass extinction event would occur, similar to what happened 65 million years ago, when the dinosaurs were wiped out following a large asteroid impact with Earth (70% of species became extinct, including all animals greater than 25 kilograms in weight).



*. Even most humans living in shelters, bunkers equipped with many years worth of food, water, energy, and medical supplies would probably not survive in the hostile post-war environment.

Black Rain Will Start Falling.





Moments after the atomic bombs hit, a hard black rain will fall.

These won’t be little patters of raindrops clearing away the dust and the flames.

They’ll be thick, black globs with a texture like oil, and they might kill you.

In Hiroshima, the black rain started to fall 20 minutes after the bomb exploded.

It covered an area about 20 kilometers (12 mi) across around ground zero, covering the countryside with a thick liquid that could douse anyone it touched with up to 100 times more radiation than stepping into the blast center.

The city around the survivors was burning and tearing up the oxygen around them, and they were already dying of thirst.

Struggling through the flames, they’d become so desperate for water that many opened up their mouths and tried to drink the strange liquid falling from the sky.

There was enough radiation in that liquid, though, to make changes in a person’s blood.

It was strong enough that the after effects of the rain can still linger today in the places it landed back then.

We have every reason to believe that it’ll happen again if another bomb falls.

An Electromagnetic Pulse Will Shut Off All Electricity.






When a nuclear explosion goes off, it can send out a pulse of electromagnetic radiation that can shut down an electrical system or even the electric grid for an entire country.

In one nuclear test, the pulse sent out by detonating a single atomic bomb was so powerful that it blew out street lamps, TV sets, and telephones in homes 1,600 kilometers (1,000mi) away from the blast center.

This, though, was an unplanned accident.

Since then, bombs have been designed to do it on purpose.

If a bomb designed to send off an electromagnetic pulse were to explode 400–480 kilometers (250–300 mi) over a country the size of the United States, the entire electric grid across the country would shut down.

So after the bombs fall, the lights will go out.

Every refrigerator storing food will shut down.

The data on every computer will be erased.

Worst of all, water treatment facilities will break down and we’ll lose clean drinking water.

It’s expected that it would take six months of concentrated work to get a country back online after it gets shut down.

But that’s assuming that people are free to work on it.

For a long time after the bombs fall, we can expect to live without electricity and without clean water.

Does NIGERIA have any nuclear arsenal?

Its pur great researcher let me park here

war is definitely not the answer

man enemy to mankind!

Homo lupus homini

Good one explorers, keep it up.

Considering the fact that some modern day bombs are even more powerful than the ones used in japan is so scary. No sane country will want to go into nuclear war. Forget all those noise from north korea. It is just for propaganda.

There can never be any nuclear apocalypse.
Countries are just building nuclear weapons so as not to be bullied by those who already have it in world political and economic issues.
It only serves the role of deterrent like you have the bomb, I also have it. So let's sit and discuss amicably as equals.

Explorer Explorer.... How many times i call u? 4 times

wow they are indeed brutal facts... The thought alone makes me quiver

It's time to explore again.

Men. All in a bit to service their egos and feel superior, countries engage their scientist in atomic bomb making.
Later they would come and be preaching about world peace when their defence budget is increasing yearly.

Making such horrific bombs and advocating for peace is like a pastor carrying an Ak47 in one hand and a bible in another.

Smoke Will Block Out The Sun.





The areas around the blast centers will be charged with an incredible amount of energy and will burst intoflames.

Everything that can burn will burn. Buildings, forests, plastic, and even the asphalt in the roads will burn.

Oil refineries which were planned targets during the Cold War will explode in flames.

The fires that envelop every target of the nuclear bombs will send off a sooty, toxic smoke that will drift into the atmosphere and, from there, into the upper stratosphere.

A dark cloud of smoke 15 kilometers (9 mi) above the surface of the Earth will grow and move, shifted by the winds, until it covers the entire planet, blocking out the sky.

For the first years after the nuclear holocaust, this will be a simple reality of stepping outside.

For years, the Sun will no longer shine and we will only see black clouds overhead obscuring the light.

It’s hard to say for sure how long it will take until this drifts away and the blue sky showsagain.

But in a full nuclear holocaust, it’s believed that we won’t see a clear sky for more than 30 years.

It Will Be Too Cold To Grow Food(Global winter)




With the Sun blocked from the sky, the world’s temperature will drop.

Depending on how many bombs are launched, this could be a devastating shift.

In extreme cases, it’s expected that the global temperature could drop by as much as 20 degrees Celsius (36 °F).

If we have a total nuclear holocaust, we can expect the first year to end without a summer.

The weather during our growing seasons will feel like winter or even like a particularly brisk fall.

Growing food will be all but impossible.

Animals around the world will starve to death, and vegetables will wither and die.

This won’t be the dawn of a new ice age.

For the first five years, a killing frost will plague growing seasons and make them a month shorter.

But things will calm down a bit afterward, and the temperature will go back to normal after about 25years.

Life will continue as long as we can survive long enough to see it.

The Ozone Layer Will Be Torn Apart.



Life, though, won’t be entirely back to normal.

A year after the bombs hit, some of the process putin motion by our contaminated atmosphere will start to tear a hole in the ozone layer.

This will be devastating.

Even with a small nuclear war that uses only 0.03 percent of the world’s arsenal, we can expect up to 50 percent of the ozone layer to be destroyed.

The world will be devastated by UV rays.

Plants will die around the world, and the living things that survive will struggle through crippling mutations of their DNA.

Even the most resilient crops will become weaker, smaller, and far less likely to reproduce.

So when the sky clears and the world warms up once more, growing food will be an incredibly difficult chore.

Whole fields will die when people try to grow food, and farmers who stay out in the Sun long enough to plant crops will die painful deaths from skin cancer.

We need to preserve human in Mars as fast as possible.


Not just nuclear bombs, we're also facing threats from meteorites big enough to littrary wipe out humanity.

Mr Explorers, kindly update us on the stage of Elon Musk's interplanetary vehicle.

Survivors Will Starve.



In a full-on nuclear holocaust, it will take years before anyone will be able to grow a reasonable amount of food.

With low temperatures, killing frosts, and vicious UV radiation from the sky, animals and crops wont survive

Many people will starve to death.

Those who survive will have to find ways to get food, but this won’t be easy.

People living by the ocean may have a slightly better chance because the seas will be slow to cool.

But life in the oceans will still be scarce.

The darkness from the blocked-out sky will kill off plankton, the major food source that keeps life thriving in the ocean.

Radioactive pollution will also be surging into the water, cutting down life and making it dangerous to eat anything fished out.

The majority of people who survive the explosions will not make it through the first five years.

Food will be too scarce, competition too vicious, and most will die.

This is scary

Chemical Radiation Will Enter Our Bones.


Even with food to eat, the survivors will have to struggle with widespread cancer.

Shortly after the bombs hit, radioactive particles will go up into the sky and then fall down all around the world.

When they land, they’ll be so small and so spread out that we won’t be able to see them.

Butthey’ll still be able to kill us.

One of the chemicals is strontium-90, which tricks the body into thinking it’s calcium when inhaled or consumed.

The body sends these toxic chemicals straight into the bone marrow and the teeth, rattling the victim with bone cancer.

Whether we survive these radioactive particles has a little to do with luck.

It’s not entirely clear how long it will take for the particles to fall.

But if it takes long enough, we might survive.

If it takes two weeks before the particles fall, their radioactivity will go down 1,000-fold and we’ll be able to make it through alive.

Cancer rates will goup, life spans will get shorter, birth defects will become common but humanity won’t be wiped out.

There Will Be Massive Storms.





During those first two or three years of frozen darkness, we can expect the world to be racked by storms unlike any we’ve seen.

The debris sent into the stratosphere won’t just block out the Sun, it will also affect the weather.

It will change how clouds are formed, making them much more efficient at producing rain.

Until things go back to normal, we can expect a near-constant rain to fall on the Earth in heavy storms.

Things will be worse by the ocean.

Though the temperature of the Earth will rapidly plummet into a nuclear winter, the oceans will take a lot longer to cool.

They will still be relatively warm, which will cause massive storms along the ocean front.

Hurricanes and typhoons will wreak havoc across the world’s coasts, and they’ll rage on for years.

This is sending shivers down my spine already. It's even better someone dies before then, k'oju ma r'ibi

Nuclear weapons might just be the end to life on this planet.


its explorers the wicked thread producer

make God help us. war is never the answer.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still feeling the effect till date.

These are very scary scenarios..
These things better not happen oo.

Explorers you know why I am happy about all of this .by the time USA and RUSSIA decide to test their nuclear might both of them will be the first to suffer the aftermath .shey it was hurricane Mathew that swept part of America was it last year ,they should expect the one that will destroy white house .


Albert Einstein this is why some people pray you will never know peace for founding relativity .Your principle of relativity was the beginning of nuclear weapon .

But I never blame you for this but those using to destabilize the world .

alexistaiwo:
There can never be any nuclear apocalypse.
Countries are just building nuclear weapons so as not to be bullied by those who already have it in world political and economic issues.
It only serves the role of deterrent like you have the bomb, I also have it. So let's sit and discuss amicably as equals.

you also have one as in..??

alexistaiwo:
There can never be any nuclear apocalypse.
Countries are just building nuclear weapons so as not to be bullied by those who already have it in world political and economic issues.
It only serves the role of deterrent like you have the bomb, I also have it. So let's sit and discuss amicably as equals.

where did you see yours....