Nuclear Winter with Ann Druyan and Brian Toon
StarTalk Radio
Are There Any Tap Roots in the Original 19 80 Cosmos?
Karl had done his phd. Thesis in 19 61 on the runaway greenhouse effect on venus. He was first person, i believed, to know the actual temperature of venus. And so against this backtrop nuclear winter on faults in the scientific community. They had spent trillions on weapons of mass destruction,. and hardly anything on researching the consequences of their extravagant foolhardiness. So it's against that back track, an transtent ronal regan, who felt that star wars defense system, you kno shields could protect us from incoming nuclear weapons. That he saw, as he saw the soviet union.
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