Global Warming Had A Jump-Start in Nuclear Testing

 

A little-known and not-often-discussed aspect of global warming and climate change is the effect nuclear atmospheric testing had on temperature rise. 

Nikita Khrushchev wanted a 100-megaton bomb in the late 1950s and physicist Andrei Sakharov refused to build it, saying such a bomb would blow a hole in the upper atmosphere that might suck out the atmosphere into space. 

A 100-ton megaton bomb would create a fireball 100-miles wide and 100-miles high. The atmosphere is 60-miles thick, so the fireball would burn right through it into space, so there goes the air.

The Russians built and tested a 50-megaton bomb, along with others. The U.S. and France blew up smaller bombs as well.

The result? 

There was a catastrophic two-degree rise in the upper atmosphere due to radioactive carbon way up there, blown there by the mega-bombs. 

It raised the temperature below dramatically and contributed to the 1963 test ban treaty between the U.S. and Russia that banned atmospheric testing. Such a treaty might not have been signed if not for the very apparent results of carbon on warming, since the two countries were locked in a deadly arms race with national survival the prize.

Almost every other country signed on to the treaty. 

This early example of the drastic effects of pumping so much carbon into the atmosphere demonstrates that carbon raises global temperatures, but much to our discredit, we still emit hundreds of millions of tons of it into the atmosphere daily, with disastrous effects. 

Radioactive carbon raised the earth's temperatures in the 1960s, but we still have not learned the lesson of carbon warming.

Many still will not acknowledge it, simply because they believe otherwise and do not have the facts.