1966 children about the future [video]

Re:1966 children about the future [video] by B1FF_PSUVM on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @05:02PM (#21130601)

> In 1966, it was nuclear winter;

Actually, in 1966 it was just the perspective of being killed by blasts or poisoned by radioactive fallout.

The popularization of the idea of nuclear winter came later, late 70s / early 80s I believe.

Ahh, 1983, here we go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter

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Re:1966 children about the future [video] by dredmorbius on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @07:57PM (#21132174)

Quite, I was going to make the same comment.

Google Ngram for "nuclear winter" shows awareness exploding in the 1980s: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=nuclear+winter...

The landmark paper was Turco, Toon, Ackerman, Pollack, and Sagan ("TTAPS"), "Nuclear Winter: Global Consequences of Multiple Nuclear Explosions" (1983):

https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.222.4630.1283

While there was some prior work, dating to the 1950s, there was effectively no public awareness.

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