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> Nuclear winter is now understood to be either less severe than predicted back in the 60s, Back in the 80s. In the 60s it was just megadeath, with a chance of
by B1FF_PSUVM 1y ago
> Nuclear winter is now understood to be either less severe than predicted back in the 60s,
Back in the 80s. In the 60s it was just megadeath, with a chance of mutants.
(The Krakatoa movie was in 1968, but the winter thing took a while to sink in)
- thyristan 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter <- look at "Early work". But you are right that the concept was only made popular in the 80s, and a lot of the earlier works were classified or unknown and obscure to the public.