The video report (on YouTube here) includes insights from two early analysts of nuclear winter, Michael MacCracken, who was at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the early 1980s, and Alan Robock of Rutgers, who continues to study the concept and has published on how even a small
nuclear exchange between, say, Pakistan and India, could have big impacts on agricultural yields.
In a statement summarizing the new policy, Obama said that «the greatest threat to U.S. and global security is no longer
a nuclear exchange between nations, but nuclear terrorism by violent extremists and nuclear proliferation to an increasing number of states.»
Not exact matches
PARIS, April 25 - Boeing has found new homes for jets it hoped to deliver to Iran this year, further clouding the prospect of quick deliveries as U.S. Boeing agreed in December 2016 to sell 80 aircraft to IranAir under a deal
between Tehran and major world powers to reopen trade in
exchange for curbs on Iran's
nuclear activities.
Tension
between North Korea and the United States has been building after a series of
nuclear and missile tests by Pyongyang and bellicose verbal
exchanges between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump.
The deal in question is the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, an agreement reached
between Iran and six world powers in 2015 that placed limits on Iran's
nuclear program in
exchange for sanctions relief.
He stressed the need for strengthened lines of communication
between Moscow and Nato to avert the «real risk of an inadvertent
nuclear exchange».
A nasty private
exchange between NYC mayoral hopeful Bo Dietl and Reform Party honcho Frank Morano went
nuclear today after Morano went public with part of it.
A nasty private
exchange between mayoral hopeful Bo Dietl and Reform Party honcho Frank Morano went
nuclear Tuesday after Morano went public with part of it.
Trump has repeatedly criticised a July 2015 deal
between Iran and world powers that saw the Islamic republic curb its
nuclear programme in
exchange for sanctions relief.
If 100 Hiroshima - sized bombs, each as powerful as 15,000 tons of TNT, were
exchanged in a war
between two developing - world
nuclear powers such as India and Pakistan, models show the resulting fires would send five million metric tons of black carbon into the upper troposphere - the lowest - altitude layer of the atmosphere.
This stabilization was due to: 1) Social effects of globalization that reduced reproductive rates below replacement levels, 2) Several genetic engineering disasters
between 2020 and 2035 that killed tens of millions of people, 3) A
nuclear exchange in the MidEast in 2021 that lead to a mini - «
nuclear winter,» cutting average temperatures by five degrees for a year, and 4) A punitive tax on non-renewable carbon - based energy quadrupled costs and led to more efficient use of energy resources.