Published 13 September 2024 at 14.24
Foreign. The Pentagon has commissioned a study on how a nuclear war in Europe will affect the global food supply.
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The study will be done with the help of AgriShock, a software that simulates the effects of a nuclear war on agriculture.
The purpose of the software was originally that EU farmers, including the Swedish ones, would be better equipped to deal with things like radioactive fallout, contaminated water and deaths among animals and personnel.
According to the Pentagon's procurement request, however, the procured study will also focus on regions «beyond Eastern Europe and Western Russia», which are the epicenter of the imagined nuclear war in the US war planning.
The project will be led by the US Army Corps of Engineers and their research and development center ERDC.
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According to the notice published earlier this week, ERDC has already selected Terra Analytics, a Colorado-based company that specializes in advanced data visualization and analytics, as the contractor.
However, other potential contractors are free to bid on similar services.
The notice lists requirements that contractors must meet, such as providing personnel, equipment, facilities, supervision and other things necessary to conduct the study.
It is unclear from the notice how the Pentagon intends to use the study.
However, the order comes at a time when talk of a potential nuclear war has intensified in light of the Ukraine conflict and the growing disagreement between NATO and Russia, where there are plans to deploy nuclear weapons in, among other Sweden in a crisis situation.
The New York Times reported last month that the US government has developed a new nuclear doctrine, in which the country's nuclear forces must be ready for coordinated nuclear confrontations with Russia, China and North Korea.