Nuclear famine: A billion people at risk

The presentation will review recent studies that show that a very limited use of nuclear weapons, involving less than 0.5 % of the world's nuclear arsenal, will cause global climate disruption with a fall in surface temperature averaging 1.3 ° C and a concomitant decline in global and regional precipitation. It will also present recently generated data on the impact this climate disruption will have on rice production in China and corn production in the US and examine the subsequent impact on human nutrition, with special attention to the 925 million people currently estimated by the UN to be malnourished, and the 300 million people living in countries dependent on imported food. Finally it will consider the appropriate public health response to this newly identified threat which places over one billion people at risk.