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Toon first presented his research on the subject at the Center for Asian Studies听Catastrophic Asia symposium and it was subsequently published in the Journal of Asian Studies.
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鈥淎n India-Pakistan war could double the normal death rate in the world,鈥� said Toon, a professor in the听听(LASP). 鈥淭his is a war that would have no precedent in human experience.鈥�
鈥淭hey鈥檙e rapidly building up their arsenals,鈥� Toon said. 鈥淭hey have huge populations, so lots of people are threatened by these arsenals, and then there鈥檚 the unresolved conflict over Kashmir.鈥�
In his latest study, he and his colleagues wanted to find out just how bad such a conflict could get. To do that, the team drew on a wide range of evidence, from computer simulations of Earth鈥檚 atmosphere to accounts of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan in 1945.
Based on their analysis, the devastation would come in several stages. In the first week of the conflict, the group reports that India and Pakistan combined could successfully detonate about 250 nuclear warheads over each other鈥檚 cities.听
There鈥檚 no way to know how powerful these weapons would be鈥攏either nation has conducted nuclear tests in decades鈥攂ut the researchers estimated that each one could kill as many as 700,000 people.
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