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.
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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