Two countries that would survive a nuclear war, according to combat expert

So, in the case of a nuclear war, what countries could consider themselves to be somewhat in a safe zone? Speaking on the Diary Of A CEO podcast, bestselling author Annie Jacobsen, writer of Nuclear War: A Scenario, painted a horrifying picture of what a global nuclear war could lead to.

On the podcast, the expert claimed that around five billion people would be dead within the first 72 minutes. The consequences could be a mini-ice age.

“Most of the world, certainly the mid-latitudes, would be covered in sheets of ice …places like Iowa and Ukraine would be just snow for 10 years,” Annie Jacobsen said. “Agriculture would fail, and when agriculture fails, people just die.”

“On top of that, you have the radiation poisoning because the ozone layer will be so damaged and destroyed that you couldn’t be outside in the sunlight – people will be forced to live underground.”

Together with climate expert Professor Brian Toon, Jacobsen stated that only two countries in the world could sustain agriculture: New Zealand and Australia.

Moreover, other safe places could be Switzerland, Iceland, South Africa, Tuvalu, and Chile. So why those? Well, these aren’t countries that have nuclear weapons in their possession, and some are able to sustain agriculture.

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