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Nuclear famine is a hypothesized famine considered a potential threat following global or regional nuclear exchange. It is thought that even subtle cooling effects resulting from a regional nuclear exchange could have a substantial impact on agriculture production, triggering a food crisis amongst the world's survivors.
While belief in the "nuclear winter" hypothesis is both popular and heavily debated, the issue of potential food supply disruption from blast and fallout effects following a nuclear war is less controversial. Several books have been written on the food supply issue, including Fallout Protection, Nuclear War Survival Skills, Would the Insects Inherit the Earth and Other Subjects of Concern to Those Who Worry About Nuclear War, and most recently the extreme nuclear winter and comet impact countermeasuring Feeding Everyone No Matter What.
Together with these largely introductory texts, more official tomes with a focus on organization, agriculture, and radioecology include Nutrition in the Postattack Environment by the RAND Corporation,[1] the continuity of government plans for preventing a famine in On Reorganizing After Nuclear Attack,[2] and Survival of the Relocated Population of the U.S. After a Nuclear Attack by Nobel Prize winner Eugene Wigner,[3] while those focused solely on radioecology and agriculture include Effects of Fallout Radiation on Crop Production,[4][5] Behavior of Radioactive Fallout in Soils and Plants,[6] and practical countermeasures that were intended to be taken on the individual level in Defense Against Radioactive Fallout on the Farm.[7]
- ^ Pogrund, Robert Seymour (1966). "Nutrition in the postattack environment". Archived from the original on 2015-01-28.
- ^ Brown, William Morle (January 1, 1968). On Reorganizing After Nuclear Attack. Archived from the original on October 27, 2016 – via www.rand.org.
- ^ "Survival of the relocated population of the U.S. after a nuclear attack 1976. full PDF" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on February 7, 2017.
- ^ Killion, D. D.; Constantin, M. J. (September 6, 1975). "Effects of fallout radiation on crop production" – via inis.iaea.org.
- ^ "Physical Effects of Nuclear Warfare" (PDF). October 25, 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-10-25.
- ^ Behavior of Radioactive Fallout in Soils and Plants. Washington. 1969-12-31. doi:10.17226/18567. hdl:2027/mdp.39015003391342. ISBN 978-0-309-29626-7. Archived from the original on 2016-10-19. Retrieved 2016-10-15. Behavior of Radioactive Fallout in Soils and Plants (1963)
- ^ "Defense against radioactive fallout on the farm / [prepared by the Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with the Atomic Energy Commission, the Office of Civil Defense, and the U.S. Public Health Service.]". Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. September 6, 1965 – via Internet Archive.