This would be the alarming danger of nuclear war and its possible consequences: "The countries of the northern hemisphere would not survive"

The fear of a new worldwide conflagration is growing, especially after Donald Trump threatened Zelensky with it during the Ukrainian leader's visit to the White House. "You are playing with World War III," the US president told him. A conflict, with today's technology, that could be a very different scenario from the two already experienced in the 20th century.

In the program 'Horizonte', presented by Iker Jimenez, they analyzed what a large-scale war would be like and, especially, with nuclear weapons. "There is always the issue that the next world war is going to be nuclear, the last one was, and I understand that people may be worried. For my part, I bought a field in Mendoza thinking about Argentina, thinking about these things," said Martin Varsavsky, businessman and friend of Elon Musk, in his appearance on the Cuatro program.

The area of the world where most people would survive a Third World War

"In Argentina, there are few countries that would survive a nuclear war, the rest of the northern hemisphere would not survive," said Varsavsky, adding: "Nuclear wars kill in ways that are not so obvious to people. The obvious one is that they drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and you die there."

However, this would only be the first step of the consequences: "Then there is a second group of people who die from what is called radiation fallout. But then there is a third one, which is where a large number of people would die, which is what is called nuclear winter."

Then, 'Horizonte' gave more details of what this so-called "nuclear winter" would be like for the areas affected in a hypothetical war. "When a lot of atomic bombs are dropped, a kind of dust, a cloud, is generated that ends up blocking solar radiation and people starve to death. They don't die of radiation, they die because there is no food. So, one of the few places where there would be a lot of food and people would not die is in Argentina."