| Title | : | A Path Where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race (Unabridged) |
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| Author | : | Carl Sagan & Richard Turco |
| Release | : | 2017-07-25 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Science & Nature |
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| 1 | A Path Where No Man Thought: Nuclear Win | Carl Sagan & Richard Turco |
| The spread of nuclear weapons to unstable third world countries means that despite the dramatic improvement in US/Soviet relations, we are living in a time of unprecedented danger of nuclear war. In 1982, Professors Sagan and Turco made known their discovery of the concept "nuclear winter", a widespread cold and dark, resulting in agricultural collapse and world famine, that would be generated in even a "small" nuclear war. It was a landmark discovery that revealed in the starkest terms how vulnerable our civilization is to the long-term environmental effects of nuclear war. Carl Sagan, Pulitzer prize-winning science writer, and Richard Turco, tell the personal story of their findings, and how, despite the much-heralded thawing of the Cold War, there are dangerous inadequacies in nuclear policy and doctrine that need to be addressed. |
