An Update of Soviet Research on and Exploitation of 'Nuclear Winter,' 1984-1986

Abstract

The analysis of Soviet source materials shows that Soviet scientists have made only minimal contributions to nuclear winter research and that much of the published work has continued to be based on worst case war scenarios, parameters and values, and projection of climatic changes derived from seriously flawed 1983 models and computations in the U.S. and Soviet Union. For political and propaganda reasons, most Soviet open sources on nuclear winter have continued to ignore new Western and even some Soviet projections of more moderate climatic effects. It appears that Soviet efforts to model nuclear winter have run their course and that more emphasis will be placed on the synergistic effects of nuclear war on the ecology and atmosphere.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 16, 1986
Accession Number
ADA191488

Entities

People

  • Leon Goure

Organizations

  • Leidos

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accidents
  • Civil Defense
  • Climate Change
  • Environmental Protection
  • Explosions
  • Geography
  • International Relations
  • Ionizing Radiation
  • Materials
  • National Security
  • New York
  • North America
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Optical Properties
  • Security
  • United States
  • Urban Areas

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  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Economics
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies