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Nuclear Winter with Ann Druyan and Brian Toon

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Nuclear War and the Dinosaurs

In order to get that much smoke, you had to burn everything on the surface of the earth. If ittny dinosaurs survived e initial fires, they would have died in the cold. And so that's a strong parallel with what happens after a nuclear war. It as at thed the day, you don't simply destroy your enemy, you destroy all the earth, everything.

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