News Headline
Nuclear power and biodiversity - don't forget WMD proliferation!
Source
Ecologist (UK)
Publication Date
2014-12-19
Nuclear energy is essential to preserve the world's biodiversity, according to 69 conservation scientists. But there's a mysterious omission in their analysis, writes Jim Green: nuclear weapons proliferation. And after a major exchange of nuclear bombs, and the 'nuclear winter' that would follow, exactly how much biodiversity would survive?