Atlantic piece slammed for arguing nuclear war would kill millions and ‘prove disastrous for climate change’

Political commentators criticized an Atlantic headline on Sunday that argued, in addition to killing millions of people, a nuclear war would “prove disastrous for climate change.”

“On Top of Everything Else, Nuclear War Is a Climate Problem,” the headline of The Atlantic article read. “A nuclear war would kill tens of millions of people and would also prove disastrous for climate change,” a tweet that accompanies the article said.

The article argued, if “you’re worried about rapid, catastrophic changes to the planet’s climate, then you must be worried about nuclear war.”

“On top of killing tens of millions of people, even a relatively ‘minor’ exchange of nuclear weapons would wreck the planet’s climate in enormous and long-lasting ways,” the outlet added. – READ MORE