Article: Nuclear thaw. (re-examination of nuclear-winter hypothesis)

Nuclear Thaw

BEGINNING IN 1983, much was heard about the likelihood of a "nuclear winter" if large-scale nuclear war should ever break out. According to this notion, which was advanced by various "scientific spokesmen," vast clouds of waste material would block the sun's rays; the extreme formulations asserted that this would lead to human extinction.

Many of those who earlier propagated this view have now pulled back. Climatologists and astrophysicists have been re-examining the nuclear-winter hypothesis, and the consensus, expressed in conferences and articles, has now shifted against any extreme scenario. The estimates now seem to converge on a ...

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