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More than a billion people around the world would
face starvation if India and Pakistan unleash nuclear weapons, according
to a study.
Use of nuclear weapons would bring the same disastrous results even if
that war is regionally limited, a study released on Tuesday warned.
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According to the study the deadly and polluting weapons would cause
major worldwide climate disruption that would dramatically drive down
food production in China, the United States and other countries.
AFP news agency quoted study author Dr Ira Helfand of the International
Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War as having said:“The grim
prospect of nuclear famine requires a fundamental change in our thinking
about nuclear weapons”.
“The new evidence that even the relatively small nuclear arsenals of
countries such as India and Pakistan could cause long lasting, global
damage to the Earth`s ecosystems and threaten hundreds of millions of
already malnourished people demands that action be taken,` Dr Helfand
said.
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“The needless and preventable deaths of one billion people over a decade
would be a disaster unprecedented in human history”, she added. |