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Nuclear Detonations Cause Global Warming on Earth

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Aron Scott
Jul 18, 2025
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The proposition that nuclear detonations on Earth represent the predominant driver of contemporary global warming demands careful and uncompromising consideration. Across the tumultuous course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, thousands of nuclear warheads have been deliberately and systematically detonated by the major geopolitical powers of the world, particularly the United States and the Russian Federation. From the devastating initiations of nuclear warfare in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 to the expansive arrays of atmospheric, subterranean, and undersea tests that followed, the Earth’s biosphere has been subject to repeated and violent disruptions that have neither been fully understood nor adequately integrated into the prevailing models of climate science. The consequences of these detonations are not mere transient disturbances, but rather fundamental and enduring alterations of atmospheric chemistry, global thermal balance, and ecological robustness.

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