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It makes dramatic long-lasting climate predictions of the effect a nuclear winter would have on the Earth, an event that is suggested by the authors to follow both a city countervalue strike during a nuclear war, and especially following strikes on oil refineries and fuel depots.
A Path Where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race: A book authored by Richard P. Turco and Carl Sagan, published in 1990; it explains the nuclear winter hypothesis and, with that, advocates nuclear disarmament. [239] Nuclear Winter is a mini documentary by Retro Report that looks at nuclear winter fears in today's world.
A Path Where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race, Carl Sagan and Richard P. Turco, 1990 Random House, New York ISBN 0-394-58307-8. "Nuclear Winter in the Post-Cold War Era", Carl Sagan and Richard P. Turco, Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Nov., 1993), pp. 369–373
Originally released September 1979, it was updated and published in May 1987 with a significant addition on nuclear winter, consisting largely of detailing the shaky assumptions used by nuclear winter models. [2] In 1999 a one-page addendum on radiation hormesis was added. In 2022 the book was updated by Steven Harris, who was mentored by ...
The book analyzed five crop-destroying catastrophes (sudden climate change, super-weeds, super-bacteria, super-pests and super-pathogens) and three sunlight-extinguishing events (supervolcano eruption, asteroid or comet impact, and nuclear winter). [1] The book proposes more than 10 solutions for providing the global food supply, according to ...
Bearing this in mind: The 1988 Air Force Geophysics Laboratory publication An assessment of global atmospheric effects of a major nuclear war by Muench, H. Stuart et al. contains a chronology and review of the major reports on the nuclear winter hypothesis from 1983-86. In general these reports arrive at similar conclusions as they are based on ...
Here, 25 of the best classic winter books to read by the fire this winter: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. Italo Calvino's postmodernist novel is a masterfully crafted puzzle.
One of the seven original "Ancients," the propagators of the vampire race. Having successfully crossed to America and overrun Manhattan, the Master now seeks to implement the next phase of his plan: causing a nuclear winter that allows only a few hours of sunlight per day. By the end of the novel, he has transferred his consciousness into the ...