Nuclear Bombs Could Ruin Your Future

Here’s a pleasant news story for your sunny Tuesday morning. It was sent out by the Carbon reporter at Bloomberg.

A nuclear war involving 100.A nuclear war involving 100 Hiroshima-size bombs would open a massive hole in the earth's ozone layer, exposing life to dangerous levels of the sun's rays, a new study shows. Smoke caused by the atomic explosions would trap heat in the stratosphere and lead to the deterioration of more than 20 percent of ozone globally, according to a study published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The findings suggest a more severe ``nuclear winter'' resulting from a massive nuclear war than was predicted in the 1980s.

Link here: Earth's Ozone Would Be Largely Destroyed in Nuclear Conflict

But what I do not understand is

1) Wouldn’t the sudden shut-down of the world’s economies and industrial production assist in turning back the clock since only a fraction of the people would be alive? and um, “nuked back to the dark ages”

2) Who would care about getting killed by the weather when your teeth are falling out of your gums and you are fighting each other for that can of pork and beans.