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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
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Subject: Re: are nukes suicidal?
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Date: Fri, 3-Feb-84 17:29:54 EST
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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?
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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.
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Martin Taylor
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