Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site burl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!clyde!burl!wjb From: wjb@burl.UUCP (Bill Buie) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: are nukes suicidal? Message-ID: <403@burl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Feb-84 09:05:13 EST Article-I.D.: burl.403 Posted: Wed Feb 1 09:05:13 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 3-Feb-84 02:36:50 EST Organization: Western Electric, Burlington, NC Lines: 15 -- I seem to recall hearing somewhere that if the USSR were to nuke every one of our land-based missiles, unopposed by us, the resulting dust cloud would cause a worldwide three-year nuclear winter. Forgive me for repeating this if it was in this newsgroup. If anybody else has heard it, can you cite a source? Is this claim simply hysteria or is it something that could be mathematically demonstrated? If there is a "proof" or documentation of any kind on this, could you please send it or a reference to me? Many thanks, -- --Bill Buie