Just a note for all those who stated that Iran has the right to nuclear weapons, regardless of it's treaty obligations.




"SAN FRANCISCO — Some of the scientists who first advanced the controversial "nuclear winter" theory more than two decades ago have come up with another bleak forecast: Even a regional nuclear war would devastate the environment.
Using modern climate and population models, researchers estimated that a small-scale nuclear conflict between two warring nations would cause 3 million to 17 million immediate casualties and lead to a marked cooldown of the planet that could lead to crop failures and further misery.

As dire as the predictions seem, they fall short of nuclear winter. That theory says that smoke and dust from an atomic war between the superpowers would blot out the sun, plunge the Earth into the deep freeze and cause mass starvation, wiping out 90% of the Earth's population, or billions of people"

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2006-12-12-nucelar-war_x.htm