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From: orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: Effects of Nuclear War
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Date: Mon, 15-Sep-86 10:41:51 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 15 10:41:51 1986
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> > "Farnham's Freehold" is hardly a realistic view of the effects of
> > nuclear war whatsoever.  For example, because an all-out nuclear war
> > would destroy the ozone layer, animals and humans without their
> > eyes shielded would soon be blinded.  Then of course there is the 
> > likelihood of the Nuclear Winter effect.  Heinlein could be excused
> 
> Speaking of pseudo-science, what Archangel handed you this privy
> information about what would happen after an all-out nuclear war?
> Would I be wrong to surmise the source's politics are to the left
> of, say, Edward Teller?  Does he say "millions and billions" a lot
> and publish most of his articles these days in that world-famous
> technical journal called PARADE Magazine?
> 
> OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO      S. Luke Jones (...ihnp4!mtung!slj)

Well, Mr. Jones, the findings by Carl Sagan and a team of a hundred
scientists of a "Nuclear Winter Effect" have just been confirmed
by the National Academy of Sciences.  The NAS study projected
less of a temperature drop than the TTAPS study but it still 
projected a pronounced Nuclear Winter effect.

So far the Nuclear Winter effect has yet to be effectively
refuted by any knowledgeable  scientific group.

                      tim sevener  whuxn!orb