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15 f) Some scientists have predicted that a global nuclear war on the earth would be followed by a severe ‘nuclear winter’ with a devastating effect on life on earth. What might be the basis of this prediction? 

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The use of nuclear weapons would cause the formation of smoke clouds preventing the light from the sun reaching earth surface and it will also deplete the atmosphere and therefore stopping the greenhouse effect and thus doubling the cooling effect.

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