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> In 1966, it was nuclear winter; Actually, in 1966 it was just the perspective of being killed by blasts or poisoned by radioactive fallout. The popularizati
by B1FF_PSUVM 7y ago
> In 1966, it was nuclear winter;
Actually, in 1966 it was just the perspective of being killed by blasts or poisoned by radioactive fallout.
The popularization of the idea of nuclear winter came later, late 70s / early 80s I believe.
Ahh, 1983, here we go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter
- dredmorbius 7y agoQuite, I was going to make the same comment. Google Ngram for "nuclear winter" shows awareness exploding in the 1980s: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=nuclear+winter&year_start=1940&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cnuclear%20winter%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=nuclear+winter... The landmark paper was Turco, Toon, Ackerman, Pollack, and Sagan ("TTAPS"), "Nuclear Winter: Global Consequences of Multiple Nuclear Explosions" (1983): https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.222.4630.1283 https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.222.4630.1283 While there was some prior work, dating to the 1950s, there was effectively no public awareness.