Imagine the heat of millions of degrees, the immediate destruction of thousands of acres, and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of lives. Now imagine all of that times a thousand. There you have a nuclear war, the explosion of a thousand or more nuclear bombs on the earth. That is what is estimated would be a nuclear war. All of that power packed in relatively smallconsidering the power they unleash bombs. The results of a nuclear war would be devastating. It would be devastating to the health and lives of people, and to the environment in which we...
ozone taken away, there could be incapacitating cases of sunburn and snowblindness in some northern countries.

There is so much that is unknown about what the effects of a nuclear war would be. There are so many possibilities. Some used to think that worldwide accumulation of radioactive fallout would eliminate life on the planet, or that it might produce monstrous genetic mutations in living things, making future generations unrecognizable. But we have learned that these hypotheses are not realistic. There are so many estimates about what would happen in a nuclear war, but no one can really predict it.