• Global food insecurity and famine from reduced crop, marine fishery and livestock production due to climate disruption from nuclear war soot injection 

      Xia, Lili; Robock, Alan; Scherrer, Kim Josefin Niklasdotter; Harrison, Cheryl S.; Bodirsky, Benjamin Leon; Weindl, Isabelle; Jägermeyr, Jonas; Bardeen, Charles G.; Toon, Owen B.; Heneghan, Ryan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Atmospheric soot loadings from nuclear weapon detonation would cause disruptions to the Earth’s climate, limiting terrestrial and aquatic food production. Here, we use climate, crop and fishery models to estimate the impacts ...
    • A New Ocean State After Nuclear War 

      Harrison, Cheryl S.; Rohr, Tyler; DuVivier, Alice; Maroon, Elizabeth A.; Bachman, Scott; Bardeen, Charles G.; Coupe, Joshua; Garza, Victoria; Heneghan, Ryan; Lovenduski, Nicole S.; Neubauer, Philipp; Rangel, Victor; Robock, Alan; Scherrer, Kim Josefin Niklasdotter; Stevenson, Samantha; Toon, Owen B. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Nuclear war would produce dire global consequences for humans and our environment. We simulated climate impacts of US-Russia and India-Pakistan nuclear wars in an Earth System Model, here, we report on the ocean impacts. ...