Chapter 378: Nuclear Winter
The First World War lasted more than four years, 65 million people participated in the war, more than 10 million people were killed, and 20 million were wounded.
World War II lasted six years, involving 2 billion people and 90 million casualties.
The Third World War lasted only 42 days, and all countries around the world were affected by the war, according to incomplete statistics, the number of casualties has exceeded 600 million, and this number has continued to rise after the war, and countless people die every day due to nuclear radiation.
Scientists have predicted that if a nuclear war breaks out worldwide, it will cause drastic changes in the global climate.
When the large-scale use of nuclear weapons, especially the use of nuclear weapons against flammable targets such as cities, will let a large amount of smoke and soot into the earth's atmosphere, and a considerable part of these soot particles are less than 1 micron in diameter, they can stay at high altitude for several days or even more than a year, and have a strong absorption of visible light radiation from the sun, and weak absorption of infrared radiation from the ground outward, resulting in the heating of the upper atmosphere and a drop in the surface temperature, which has the opposite effect of the greenhouse effect, making the surface present a landscape like a severe winter, which is called nuclear winter。
Some scientists believe that the nuclear winter theory is not accurate enough, and they believe that the bitter cold temperatures will last too long, and the 20-degree temperature will only last for a few hours, and will return to normal temperatures after 3 months.
However, until anything happens, no one knows what the truth will be.
The Third World War was a self-destructive war for mankind, and in just 52 days, it caused more damage than the sum of World War I and World War II. However, it was after the war that the real disaster came.
As scientists predicted, nuclear dust enters the sky, blocking the sun, and there is only one season left in the world, winter. However, this winter lasted far longer than scientists predicted, and there were too many unexpected factors that they didn't take into account.
The sky was gray and cloudy, the stars could no longer be seen at night, countless crops were necrotic, countless forests withered, and the wind and sand swept across the eastern and western continents, and the whole world turned from colorful to gray.
The water is polluted, diseases are spreading, and there is occasional rain and hail in the sky, but the rain can no longer nourish the flowers and trees, and they can even corrupt the green leaves when they are sprinkled on them. After people are exposed to the rain, they will have a rash on their skin, and in severe cases, they will feel difficulty breathing, shock, and death......
If the acidity in the rain is too high, it is the atmosphere that is "detoxifying". The entire atmosphere has been seriously damaged, and after the destruction of chemical plants around the world, all kinds of harmful gases have floated into the sky, and those gases are more harmful to the atmosphere than freon, and they will not disperse for a hundred years if they stay in the atmosphere.
The ozone hole over Antarctica began to expand, and the ozone layer over other tectonic plates of the earth also appeared "small holes", although they are still small, but they are like a fire in the center of a piece of paper, spreading very quickly around.
Without the protection of the ozone layer, strong ultraviolet rays pass through the nuclear dust and reach the ground. Plants and microorganisms struggle to survive, and more and more people suffer from skin cancer and cataracts, and eventually, everyone hides at home and does not dare to go out.
The outside world has become "dire water", people exposed to the sky clearly feel cold, the skin of the wind and sand thorns is painful, but people will feel hot in the body, an irrepressible heat, cold water can not cool down, only in the thick cotton clothes and then put on a thin layer of radiation clothing will feel much better.
People do not dare to wear radiation resistance clothing like reflectors outside, because it has become a scarce item, and wearing it outside is like sticking a layer of gold outside the body, which will only usher in robbery.
Naturally, umbrellas have become a scarce item, and the funny thing is that the sun is no longer visible in the sky, and people only dare to go out by holding it.
Human civilization gradually regressed, and a month after the outbreak of World War III, the main way for people to obtain information from the outside world had become listening to the radio, and everyone was afraid to go out at home, and the windows were firmly sealed. Those who had some survival skills survived, stockpiling weapons and food, digging basements, using internal combustion engines to generate electricity, and making improvised water purification systems early in the war. They believe that as long as they survive the worst of the worst years underground, the world will eventually return to normal.
The Earth's population is declining at a rate of 1,000 percent every day, and the law has lost its binding force without the guarantee of survival, and the eastern and western continents have been completely plunged into chaos.
However, there is still hope in people's hearts, and everyone is anxiously waiting for the "winter" to pass, waiting for the spring when everything will recover. However, no one knows how long the wait will be.
There is no green in sight on the earth, and there are dead branches and leaves everywhere. However, there is one plant that has survived, and it is the fluorescent tree.
This tree is like a plum blossom in winter, blooming more gorgeously in the nuclear radiation, but the plum blossom has long since died, and only it can stand. The glow of green from the fluorescent tree gives hope to the light it emits at night, which seems to light up the whole dark world......
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It has always been known that World War III will eventually come, because the so-called time of peace is only a period of recuperation, and the great powers have never ceased to develop their own weapons, which are intended to be used against humanity itself. Military experts also predicted that World War III would be an extremely fast war, because human weapons were already too powerful to easily destroy the world.
There is no victor in this war, everyone is the loser.
If the nuclear attack on Rome sounded the clarion call for World War III, then on the 42nd day of the attack on Rome, the Third World War officially ended.
On this day, world leaders sat down at the negotiating table in Australia, the only continental plate that had not been hit by a nuclear bomb.
The scale of this meeting is no less than that of the United Nations. With the exception of Jiuyou, Russia, and the United States, all other countries are required to send at least one national leader to the meeting, and if any country is not represented, then the country will be classified as a "war-oriented state", which is a worse position than the nature of a "terrorist state", and it will be immediately suppressed by the whole world.
The conference, known as the "Global Peace Conference," was co-sponsored by the United States and Russia. But in fact, nearly half of the countries in the world are watching the attitude of Jiuyou, and if Jiuyou does not participate in this meeting, they will not participate.
In this war, although Russia initially sided with Jiuyou, Jiuyou never asked Russia for help from beginning to end, and the two sides did not even have military communication. Russia just wants to get the most out of this war, and now that they are about to get one of the largest states in the United States, there is no reason to continue the war. If the war continues, Russia will probably suffer huge losses.
The whole world saw the devastated appearance of Jiuyou and the United States, and they were already timid in their hearts, and they were afraid that their country would become like that. Global climate change is already causing national government suffering, food shortages in all countries, and demand for radiation gowns and skincare products is outstripping supply.
When the country's food productivity drops dramatically, it is already decided that there will be a part of the population that will die, and this part of the population is mostly the weakest in society, but they will choose to die in the riots.
Climate change has dealt a heavy blow to the global agriculture and animal husbandry industries, and prices have skyrocketed in various countries, and in some countries, a mobile phone can only be exchanged for a cabbage. And countries like Australia, which were less affected by the war, have now made a lot of money, and their sky-high food exports have increased their domestic GDP several times in a month. However, during the war, the currencies of all countries were depreciating rapidly, and Australians knew that the foreign currency they earned now may be as cheap as a blank slate, but after the war, the Australian dollar will become the world's highest exchange rate, and Australians will become the richest people in the world.
On this day, delegates from all over the world gathered at the International Convention Centre in Melbourne, Australia. Here, people can still enjoy the mild sunshine that has not been seen for a long time, but the anger in everyone's bones makes Melbourne as cold and hot as other continents......