Nuclear “Frost” in the Summer of 2022?
... international terrorism, and, finally, the coronavirus. Yet, after a global nuclear war, none of these items on the international agenda will matter one whit for those few who will have survived the planet-wide disaster.” Twilight at noon and the “nuclear winter” Following World War II, the world was rapidly building up the number and yield of its nuclear weapons in the 1960s-1970s. Consequently, the world needed to assess the effect that high-yield detonations would have on major cities and industrial centers, evaluating possible long-term global consequences of a nuclear war, which at the time ...