Nuclear war today? That's how many people would die (Video)

Results presented in the 14-minute video “The Shadow Peace, Part 11x1> are really disturbing.

The expert illustrates global population figures and mortality rates and how the death toll rose during World War II.

To assess the number of victims of a nuclear war, Halloran analyzed the effects of bombs thrown on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as the devastating potential and missile capacity that exist today.

He also considered the cities that would be the target of nuclear attacks.

He estimates that a nuclear war would cause about 500 million deaths in the first three weeks, a number that would pass by more than 10 times the victims of World War II.

And that figure does not include the effects of the nuclear winter that would destroy crops worldwide and lead to global hunger, writes the day. In 2015 the expert devoted an 18 - minute video to the horrors of World War II.

His calculations revealed that no other conflict in history has caused so much death in such a short time.