Potentially billions of people would die hideously from acute radiation sickness, vomiting, and bleeding to death. As thick black radioactive smoke engulfed the stratosphere, the Earth would, over time, be plunged into another ice age—a “nuclear winter,” annihilating almost all living organisms.

Women Against Military Madness Vol. 38  Num. 4  Fall 1 2020

75 Years of Nuclear Weapons, by Helen Caldicott, Jay Kvale | Rise Up Times

Helen Caldicott on a World Targeted by Nuclear Bombs