Climatic Impacts and Humanitarian Problems Use UK's Nuclear Weapons

The briefing argues that the use of nuclear weapons from one UK Trident submarine would cause massive smoke generation, leading to sharp global climate cooling and crop failures threatening 1 billion people, alongside over 10 million direct deaths.

• The detonation of nuclear warheads from a single UK Trident submarine would generate vast amounts of smoke, resulting in sharp climate cooling and global crop failures that would threaten the lives of approximately 1 billion people.
• Beyond the climatic effects, the use of these weapons would result in more than 10 million immediate deaths caused by fallout, fire, and blast.

APA

Webber, P. (2013). Climatic Impacts and Humanitarian Problems Use UK's Nuclear Weapons. Scientists for Global Responsibility. https://www.sgr.org.uk/publications/climatic-impacts-and-humanitarian-problems-use-uk-s-nuclear-weapons

Chicago

Webber, Philip. Climatic Impacts and Humanitarian Problems Use UK's Nuclear Weapons. Scientists for Global Responsibility, 2013. https://www.sgr.org.uk/publications/climatic-impacts-and-humanitarian-problems-use-uk-s-nuclear-weapons.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{webber2013climatic, author = {Webber, Philip}, title = {{Climatic Impacts and Humanitarian Problems Use UK's Nuclear Weapons}}, institution = {Scientists for Global Responsibility}, year = {2013}, month = feb, url = {https://www.sgr.org.uk/publications/climatic-impacts-and-humanitarian-problems-use-uk-s-nuclear-weapons}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }