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'Nuclear winter' still threat, scientists say
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SAN FRANCISCO -- With superpower nuclear arsenals having
plummeted to a third of 1980s levels and slated to drop by another
third, the nightmarish visions of nuclear winter offered up by
scientists during the Cold War have receded.
But they haven't gone away.
Researchers at the American Geophysical Union's annual meeting
warned Monday that even a small regional nuclear war could burn
enough cities to shroud the globe in a black smoky shadow and usher
in the manmade equivalent o...
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; Everybody has his own little index to measure international change. Mine this week comes from a New York Times article on "nuclear winter." You remember nuclear winter, the notion that in a nuclear war dust and smoke would blot out sunlight and lead, if not to the extinction of the human race then
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Nuclear Winter, Petroleum Summer
The Washington Post
; A PATH WHERE NO MAN THOUGHT Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race By Carl Sagan and Richard Turco Random House. 499 pp. $27.95 THE GLOBAL warming of the Cold War has undercut the relevance of a variety of recent books. One example is A Path Where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and the End of
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Nuclear winter confirmed.
National Forum
; Nuclear Winter Confirmed The theory of nuclear winter has provoked arguments since it was first proposed in 1982. While the Defense Department waffles on its consequences, new studies continue to confirm the original conclusions, and the international community has taken notice. Last December the
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'Nuclear winter' still a threat, experts say
Oakland Tribune
; SAN FRANCISCO -- With superpower nuclear arsenals plummeted to a third of 1980s levels and slated to drop by another third, the nightmarish visions of nuclear winter offered up by scientists during the Cold War have receded. But they haven't gone away. Researchers at the American Geophysical
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'Nuclear winter' looms, experts say
Oakland Tribune
; SAN FRANCISCO -- With superpower nuclear arsenals plummeting to a third of 1980s levels and slated to drop by another third, the nightmarish visions of nuclear winter offered by scientists during the Cold War have receded. But they haven't gone away. Researchers at the American Geophysical Union's
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'Nuclear winter' is still a threat, scientists say Cold War buzzword returns to forefront
Oakland Tribune
; SAN FRANCISCO -- With superpower nuclear arsenals plummeting to a third of 1980s levels and slated to drop by another third, the nightmarish visions of nuclear winter offered up by scientists during the Cold War have receded. But they haven't gone away. Researchers at the American Geophysical
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Even limited nuclear war would have global effects, CU prof says Study: Regional conflict could kill 20 million, cripple global agriculture
Rocky Mountain News
; ... demographics forms perhaps the greatest danger to the stability of society since the dawn of humanity," Toon said Monday during a news briefing at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco. The researchers produced two studies that ...
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A Medical View Of Nuclear War
The Washington Post
; The Medical Implications of Nuclear War Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences; Edited by Frederic Solomon, MD, and Robert Q. Marston, MD (National Academy Press: Washington, D.C., 1986) 579 pp. $33.50 This just in from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences:
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Similarities of dinosaurs fate and `nuclear winter'
Chicago Sun-Times
; In contemplating the fate of the dinosaurs, the very phenomenon that made our own evolution possible, we are drawn to dark thoughts of our own extinction. We realize that we are, as Niels Bohr once observed, both spectators of and participants in the phenomenon of nature. The peril is not a million
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Soot Study Puts New Chill Into `Nuclear Winter'; Smoke `Fluff Balls' Would Block Light, Heat
The Washington Post
; New tinkering with the "nuclear winter" scenario indicates that the predicted cooling might be more severe than current computer models indicate, according to a report published today. Scientists say these models have not accurately portrayed the sun-blocking soot that would be produced by fires
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