Nuclear war has always existed in the background of modern life as the kind of threat that is too big to fully process, so most of us simply don’t. It lives in the same mental drawer as asteroid strikes and supervolcanoes, all theoretically possible, not something you can do much about, best not to think about before bed.
But with tensions escalating across the Middle East, America and Israel firing missiles at Iran, and the Taliban launching an incursion into nuclear-armed Pakistan, scientists have decided now is a good time to run the numbers. They did. The results are exactly as bleak as you would expect. Maybe bleaker.
