The world after the atomic war

There would be hundreds of millions of dead people and another hundreds of millions of injured or severely radiation-injured people in a nuclear world war who would hardly have any chances of survival without intensive medical care as cannot be expected in the world ''after''. By the clouds of smoke coming from the fires started by the bomb explosions the sun would be darkened for many weeks. There would be heavy smog on the whole of the Northern hemisphere. The social structures, industry, transport and also agricultural production would break down. Most of the people who would have survived for the first few weeks would finally starve. These are the conclusions drawn from a study carried out on behalf of the Swedish Academy of Sciences. (orig./HP)