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Nuclear famine
Nuclear famine is a term used to describe the impact on the global food supply resulting from severe disruption of the climate caused by a limited, regional nuclear war. Nuclear famine is distinct from the nuclear winter predicted as the result of a nuclear war involving the massive arsenals of the United States and Russia, primarily in terms of scale and duration.
Research published by climate scientists starting in 2007, using advanced climate modeling and positing a regional nuclear exchange in which 100 50-kiloton weapons were used against large cities, determined that five teragrams (five million tons)
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