The concept of nuclear... «Nuclear War: A Scenario»
nika_829 июня 2024The concept of nuclear winter first caught the world’s attention in October 1983 when Parade magazine (then read by more than 10 million Americans) featured on its cover a spooky image of a darkened Earth and news of a “special report” inside, authored by one of the world’s most famous scientists, Carl Sagan. “Would nuclear war be the end of the world?” Sagan asked, and answered: “In a nuclear ‘exchange,’ more than a billion people would instantly be killed. But the long-term consequences could be much worse.” Consequences that Sagan, his former students James B. Pollack and O. Brian Toon, and meteorologists Thomas P. Ackerman and Richard P. Turco laid out in terrifying detail in a paper published two months later, in the journal Science.
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