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Richard Rhodes — The Making of the Atomic Bomb

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Physics of a Nuclear Winter

Nuclear winter was first conceived by a group of scientists, Carl Sagan's probably the most famous among them. They calculated that full-scale nuclear war would drop the average annual temperature worldwide about 30 to 40 degrees. This very careful science was vociferously repudiated by people who believed in building more and more weapons.

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