if the US is involved in a large scale nuclear exchange with Russia or China, it’s going to be a disaster for the US, and it doesn’t matter to them whether it also devastates agriculture in Australia and Africa.
Unless the relevant decision makers are scope-sensitive to the point of caring about the indirect deaths in the US, which may be significant if there is a severe nuclear winter? I guess it would not matter, because the direct deaths and destruction would already be super bad!
Nitpick, Australia may have more food depending on the amount of soot ejected into the stratosphere. Table S2 of Xia 2022:
Hi David,
Unless the relevant decision makers are scope-sensitive to the point of caring about the indirect deaths in the US, which may be significant if there is a severe nuclear winter? I guess it would not matter, because the direct deaths and destruction would already be super bad!
Nitpick, Australia may have more food depending on the amount of soot ejected into the stratosphere. Table S2 of Xia 2022: