Global atmospheric effects of nuclear‐war fires
OCT 01, 1982
DOI: 10.1063/1.2914787
When Yves Laulan says, “We would be returning to the Dark Ages,” the chief economist of the largest bank in France is talking about the economy after a nuclear war. With half the Northern Hemisphere’s urban population wiped out by the war’s direct blasts alone, those remaining would find themselves in a barter economy trading in nothing more than the basic elements of survival: food, shelter and medical care.
© 1982. American Institute of Physics
