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Apropos to the times... National Security Archive @ GWU: "Investigating the Climate Impacts of #NuclearWar"
1983 Lawrence Livermore: Nuclear Exchange Could “Dramatically Affect the Atmosphere’s Temperature”
Defense Nuclear Agency: Nuclear War Producing “Atmospheric Trauma”
1988 Interagency Study: “Severe Disruption of [Food] Production, Processing, and Distribution”
Ps The early 60s Amchitka Island atomic test blew a hole in the ionosphere that altered the weather
nsarchive.gwu.eduInvestigating the Climate Impacts of Nuclear War | National Security ArchiveWashington, D.C., October 30, 2024 - A 1983 study from scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore Laboratory said that a full-scale nuclear war between the superpowers would “dramatically affect the atmosphere’s temperature, dynamic, precipitation, and chemistry,” reduce “the light reaching the surface in the Northern Hemisphere by 90% or more,” and could cause “a cooling of continental land areas by up to 30°C.”