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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 of the Little Ice Age.
"Nuclear weapons represent the greatest single human threat to
the planet, much more so than ...
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