The Pentagon wants to know what will happen to agriculture in Eastern Europe in case of a nuclear war. According to a notification dated Sept. 10, the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, announced that it intended to award a sole service contract to a firm called Terra Analytics of Boulder, Colorado, “for the research and development of active research programs that focus on modeling impacts on the environment and the impacts of nuclear weapons on farm systems that optimizes AgriShock, a code suite for modeling the effects of nuclear weapons on agricultural systems.”
The contractor is “to conduct studies that demonstrate modeling of nuclear warfare on a global scale that would lead to destruction of the agriculture systems such as farms. The contractor must be able to execute the following: 1) utilize AgriShock, code suite, to increase the geographic coverage to include former Eastern Bloc countries and implement software code on DOD TS/SCI level ERDC supercomputing resources; 2) update their AgriShock software code to regions beyond eastern Europe and western Russia, with regions chosen to support the ERDC mission to support the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) goals of modeling effects of nuclear events....”
The existence of the contract was reported by RT on Sept. 12. “It is unclear from the notice how the Pentagon intends to use the study,” it said. “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 discord between NATO and Russia. Many experts have warned that a direct confrontation between Russia and the U.S.-led bloc could result in a nuclear disaster.”
