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Nuclear Winter with Ann Druyan and Brian Toon

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A Nuclear War Is Not Catastrophic

i gave a talk about this early oncasthers huge scepticism about this idea of geology. Nothing catastrophic ever happened. Its all just a continuum. And asteroids fit into that continuum, because the moon formed from an asteroid impact on the earth. About asteroids about as big as mars, and there has been constant collisions. We had one a few years ago ne russia. At tha was quite large and hurt thousand people or more. But nevertheless, people were sceptical about how the masters might have been killed by that. And som said, al ant, what about nuclear and wars? And so we went back o ip richard turko, who i knew worked for a company that

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