Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!mmt From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: are nukes suicidal? Message-ID: <669@dciem.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-Feb-84 17:29:54 EST Article-I.D.: dciem.669 Posted: Fri Feb 3 17:29:54 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 3-Feb-84 20:30:10 EST References: <403@burl.UUCP> Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 23 -- 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. 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? ============= Nuclear Winter: Global Consequences of Multiple Nuclear Explosions. R.P.Turco, O.B.Toon, T.P.Ackerman, J.B.Pollack and Carl Sagan Science, 23 Dec 1983, p1283-1292 Long-Term Biological Consequences of Nuclear War. (Many Authors) Science, 23 Dec 1983, 1293-1300. There was also a Russian study coming to the same conclusion, but I don't know the reference. This is one matter on which US and Russia agree. -- Martin Taylor {allegra,linus,ihnp4,uw-beaver,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt