What are the effects of a limited nuclear war?

Around the time when Reagan was talking about staging tactical nuclear weapons in Europe, a Scientific American article demonstrated what one or two nuclear weapons detonated over nuclear power stations in Western Europe would do. Depending on the wind direction it was very nasty.

Chernobyl showed what even a disaster in a single plant would mean without the added radiation from a weapon. Scotland and Denmark were affected even though the site was sealed in a shorter time than would be the case in the event of a weapon attack.
 
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