Why You Should Care About Nukes

For info about divesting from nuclear weapons companies, go to http://responsibleinvest.org/ Thanks to the Future of Life Institute for helping support this video http://www.futureoflife.org (in particular, thanks to Max Tegmark for guest narrating and Meia Chita-Tegmark for her feedback) And thanks to everyone who supports MinutePhysics on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/minutephysics Link to Patreon supporters here: http://www.minutephysics.com/supporters.html Music by Nathaniel Schroeder, http://www.soundcloud.com/drschroeder REFERENCES Climate-model showing impacts of nuclear winter – http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/pdf/RobockNW2006JD008235.pdf Current status of global nuclear forces http://fas.org/issues/nuclear-weapons/status-world-nuclear-forces/ Financing the Nuclear Industry – http://www.dontbankonthebomb.com/ MinutePhysics is on Google+ - http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook - http://facebook.com/minutephysics And twitter - @minutephysics Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics -- all in a minute! Created by Henry Reich This video is about the continued dangers of nuclear weapons and the nuclear arms race in the post-cold war world, particularly nuclear winter but also modernizations by the US and Russian governments, EMPs (electromagnetic pulses), fallout, explosions, terrorism, other accidents, etc.