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Further Reading
Sagan, Carl. “Nuclear War and Climatic Catastro-
phe: Some Policy Implications.”Foreign Affairs 62
(1983): 257-292. Examines the political implica-
tions of nuclear winter.
Sagan, Carl, and Richard Turco.A Path Where No
Man Thought. New York: Random House, 1990.
Sums up the debate concerning nuclear winter
from the perspective of two of its proponents.
Schneider, Stephen H., and Starley L. Thompson.
“Simulating the Climatic Effects of Nuclear War.”
Nature333 (May, 1988): 221-227. Two critics of
the nuclear winter scenario argue for nuclear au-
tumn instead.

Turco, R. P., O. B. Toon, T. P. Ackerman, J. B. Pol-

lack, and Carl Sagan. “Nuclear Winter: Global

Consequences of Multiple Nuclear Explosions.”

Science222, no. 4630 (1983). The seminal TTAPS

article that presented possible negative climatic

effects of nuclear war.

Turco, Richard P.Earth Under Siege. New York: Ox-

ford University Press, 1997. Long-term evaluation

of the nuclear winter scenario with comparisons

to the oil fires after the first Gulf War (1991).

John M. Theilmann

See also Cold War; Reagan, Ronald; Soviet Union

and North America; Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI).

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