Im currently playing Fallout 3 - a awsome game where the main caracter is thrown out of his home in Vault 101, and have to fight his way through lots of mutated monsters, gangs of raiders and so on.
In Fallout 3, the nuclear war has lead to the creation of entirely new species, such a huge variety of giant insects, huge green orks that likes to eat people, gouls that are humans who looks like zombies (their skin falls of because of the intense radiation they where exposed to after the bombs fell) and some others. (The gouls are perhaps not a new species, As I have understood it, they dont get children, but they age much slower then normal people).
Huge insects will probably not happen after a nuclear war because the size of insects is limited by the weight of their outer-skeleton, and their way of breething through their "hull".
But what about the rest? Inn fallout, the forests and green stuff is gone. Is it certain that that would happen? In Cernobyl there is lots of forest and animals now that the humans are evacuated. Unnless a actual nuclear war covers the earth in much denser radiation than the Cernobyl accident did with Cernobyl, the post-war Earth might become greener - and not less green - then it is now (The big cities, and not the forests will be wiped out) perhaps with a two-headed, or two-tailed animal here and there.
Offcourse, a senario with higher radiation, less humans, but more animallife might also lead to the creation of entirely new species, perhaps forests of completly new plants (Giant mushroom forests or something?)
Has there been done anny serious scientific studies on how nuclear war would change the nature of Earth? Is the post-acopalyptic stereotype of desserts, mutated monsters and troubled human tribes based on anny kind of science?
In Fallout 3, the nuclear war has lead to the creation of entirely new species, such a huge variety of giant insects, huge green orks that likes to eat people, gouls that are humans who looks like zombies (their skin falls of because of the intense radiation they where exposed to after the bombs fell) and some others. (The gouls are perhaps not a new species, As I have understood it, they dont get children, but they age much slower then normal people).
Huge insects will probably not happen after a nuclear war because the size of insects is limited by the weight of their outer-skeleton, and their way of breething through their "hull".
But what about the rest? Inn fallout, the forests and green stuff is gone. Is it certain that that would happen? In Cernobyl there is lots of forest and animals now that the humans are evacuated. Unnless a actual nuclear war covers the earth in much denser radiation than the Cernobyl accident did with Cernobyl, the post-war Earth might become greener - and not less green - then it is now (The big cities, and not the forests will be wiped out) perhaps with a two-headed, or two-tailed animal here and there.
Offcourse, a senario with higher radiation, less humans, but more animallife might also lead to the creation of entirely new species, perhaps forests of completly new plants (Giant mushroom forests or something?)
Has there been done anny serious scientific studies on how nuclear war would change the nature of Earth? Is the post-acopalyptic stereotype of desserts, mutated monsters and troubled human tribes based on anny kind of science?
