• Question: if world war 3 stareted how long would the world last be cause of all the newclire boms

    Asked by hell to Daniel, Jon, Louise, Sharon on 24 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Jon Copley

      Jon Copley answered on 23 Jun 2010:

      If all the world’s nuclear weapons went off, it would be devastating for human life (and much of the ecosystem), but it wouldn’t destroy the world.

      The Earth is actually pretty tough and hard to destroy completely – after all, it is basically a 6 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 kilogram ball of mostly iron. In the past, the Earth has survived being hit by asteroids that are the equivalent of 5 billion times the atomic bomb that devastated Hiroshima.

    • Photo: Sharon Sneddon

      Sharon Sneddon answered on 23 Jun 2010:

      I don’t know the answer to that one, all I know is that I really hope it never happens! I think it’s really frightening to think about 🙁

    • Photo: Louise Dash

      Louise Dash answered on 24 Jun 2010:

      Hi Hell

      I don’t know really – it’s probable that the planet itself would recover eventually but it is possible that there wouldn’t be any humans left. This is the kind of thing I try not to worry about too much and just hope it never happens!

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