The intermediate range nuclear forces treaty nin 86 between ronregan and gorichof basically tried to get rid of the missiles in europe. And it started a build down of nuclear weapons, tat's continued to this day. Every american present, every russian president since then as reduced arsenals,. There's still plenty of them to cause ha nuclear winter.
Are advanced civilizations doomed to destroy themselves? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice explore the Cold War, The Drake Equation, and nuclear winter hypothesis with producer of Cosmos and Carl Sagan’s widow Ann Druyan and atmospheric scientist Brian Toon.
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