‘No precedent in human experience’: Study finds nuclear war between India and Pakistan could leave 125 million dead

India's Agni-V missile (left) © DRDO; Pakistan's Shaheen II, Hatf-VI (right) © Reuters / Stringer

A nuclear war between India and Pakistan could kill up to 125 million people in just a few days – surpassing the death count of the entire Second World War – and kick off a worldwide environmental meltdown, a new study found.

Published in the peer-reviewed Science Advances on Wednesday, the study forecasted a colossal death toll in the event of such a conflict, which it said could send global temperatures plummeting to levels comparable to the last Ice Age.

“Such a war would threaten not only the locations where bombs might be targeted but the entire world,” the study’s co-author and professor of environmental sciences at Rutgers University, Alan Robock, said.

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