wjb@burl.UUCP (Bill Buie) (02/01/84)
-- I seem to recall hearing somewhere that if the USSR were to nuke every one of our land-based missiles, unopposed by us, the resulting dust cloud would cause a worldwide three-year nuclear winter. Forgive me for repeating this if it was in this newsgroup. If anybody else has heard it, can you cite a source? Is this claim simply hysteria or is it something that could be mathematically demonstrated? If there is a "proof" or documentation of any kind on this, could you please send it or a reference to me? Many thanks, -- --Bill Buie
mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) (02/04/84)
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I seem to recall hearing somewhere that if the USSR were to nuke
every one of our land-based missiles, unopposed by us, the resulting
dust cloud would cause a worldwide three-year nuclear winter.
If anybody else has heard it, can you cite a source? Is this claim
simply hysteria or is it something that could be mathematically
demonstrated? If there is a "proof" or documentation of any kind on
this, could you please send it or a reference to me?
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Nuclear Winter: Global Consequences of Multiple Nuclear Explosions.
R.P.Turco, O.B.Toon, T.P.Ackerman, J.B.Pollack and Carl Sagan
Science, 23 Dec 1983, p1283-1292
Long-Term Biological Consequences of Nuclear War. (Many Authors)
Science, 23 Dec 1983, 1293-1300.
There was also a Russian study coming to the same conclusion, but I
don't know the reference. This is one matter on which US and Russia
agree.
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Martin Taylor
{allegra,linus,ihnp4,uw-beaver,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmtrf@wu1.UUCP (02/08/84)
There are indeed several studies which predict the "nuclear winter". They were summarized in a recent *Science News*. I don't have the volume and issue number here, but the summary was published in 1983; the exact issue can be found in *Science News's* 1983 index issue. Randolph Fritz
noel@cubsvax.UUCP (02/09/84)
The study which Sagan participated in which predicted Nuclear Winter
was summarized in Science magazine, Dec 1983, page 1283.
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-- Noel Kropf {philabs,cmcl2!rocky2}!cubsvax!noel.UUCP 212-280-5517
-- 1002 Fairchild; Columbia University; New York NY 10027courtney@hp-pcd.UUCP (02/12/84)
If such a statement is true, then it surely verifies the absurdity of the "need more nukes" philosophy of the Ray-Gun administration. CL