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A great mini-doc overview of the same topic: https://www.retroreport.org/video/nuclear-winter/ https://www.retroreport.org/video/nuclear-winter/
by augustocallejas 9y ago
A great mini-doc overview of the same topic:
https://www.retroreport.org/video/nuclear-winter/ https://www.retroreport.org/video/nuclear-winter/
- rounce 9y agoAlso, the 1984 BBC documentary 'On the 8th Day' is worth a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCz9zqTTark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCz9zqTTark
- ghostcluster 9y agoHow about this NYTimes story where even the scientist who coined the term disavowed it as a scenario. > the five scientists who introduced the term ''nuclear winter'' now acknowledge that they overestimated its severity, and their concession appears to have moderated the longstanding debate. > most discounted the extreme view that global chilling of the atmosphere would be severe enough to be described as ''winter.'' Scientists specializing in such studies also generally reject the suggestion that a ''nuclear winter,'' in itself, could bring about the extinction of the human race. Even Dr. Richard P. Turco, the physicist who coined the phrase ''nuclear winter,'' discounts the idea. http://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/23/science/nuclear-winter-theorists-pull-back.html?pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/23/science/nuclear-winter-the...