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A '''Nuclear summer''' is a hypothetical scenario resulting from [[nuclear warfare]] that would follow a [[nuclear winter]], caused by [[aerosol]]s inserted into the atmosphere that would prevent sunlight from reaching lower levels or the surface.<ref name="New Scientist">{{cite journal|journal=[[New Scientist]]|date=February 26, 1987|title=Researchers Blow Hot and Cold Over Armageddon|page=28}}</ref> In this scenario, following the settling out of most of the aerosols in 1–3 years, the cooling effect would be overcome by a heating effect from [[greenhouse warming]], which would raise surface temperatures rapidly by many degrees, enough to cause the death of much if not most of the life that had survived the cooling, much of which is more vulnerable to higher-than-normal temperatures than to lower-than-normal temperatures. The nuclear detonations would release CO<sub>2</sub> and other greenhouse gases from burning, followed by more released from decay of dead organic matter. The detonations would also insert oxides of [[nitrogen]] into the stratosphere that would then deplete the [[ozone layer]] around the Earth.<ref name="New Scientist"/> This layer screens out [[Deep ultraviolet|UV-C]] radiation from the [[Sun]], which causes genetic damage to life forms on the surface. As the temperature rises, the amount of water in the [[atmosphere]] would increase, causing further greenhouse warming of the surface, and if it rose enough, it could cause the sublimation of [[methane clathrate]] deposits on the sea floor, releasing huge amounts of [[methane]], a greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere, perhaps enough to trigger [[runaway climate change]]. |
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Other more simplistic versions of the hypothesis exist: that ''Nuclear winter might give way to a nuclear summer. The high temperatures of the nuclear fireballs could destroy the ozone gas of the middle stratosphere''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www3.wooster.edu/history/jgates/book-ch11.html|title=THE U.S. ARMY AND IRREGULAR WARFARE, CHAPTER ELEVEN THE CONTINUING PROBLEM OF CONCEPTUAL CONFUSION|author=JOHN M. GATES|accessdate=2011-11-27}}</ref> |
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==References== |
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[[Category:Nuclear weapons]] |
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[[Category:Hypothetical environmental disasters]] |
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