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Dr. John Brandenburg: Confessions of a NASA Space Scientist

Earth Ancients

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The Nuclear Winter

When I was at Sandy Labs in 1983, we went through the nuclear winter. They discovered it because of a dust storm on Mars in 1971. The earth would be put in a deep freeze for maybe a year afterwards. And more people would die of starvation and colds and would die of the original blast and fallout.

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