Soviet Exploitation of the 'Nuclear Winter' Hypothesis.

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UNCLASSIFIED 22a NAME OF RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUAL 22b TELEPHONE (Include Area Code) 22c OFFICE SYMBOL Betty L. F"'-(202) 325-7042 DNA/STTI DO FORM 1473, 84 MAR 83 APR edition may be used until exhausted SECURITY CLASSIFICATION OF THIS PAGE A:l other editions are obsolete UNCLASSIFIED * SOVIET VIEWS ON: Global Nuclear War Effects "Nuclear Winter" Phenomenon "Nuclear Winter" Research & Modeling Cooperation with Western Scientists. 19. ABSTRACT (Continued) * Union's military might, while it is also explained that the dire predictions of the ' possible consequences of a nuclear war in no way diminish the utility of the Soviet civil defense program and the need for its further improvement.

Trading Global Catastrophes: NATO’s Science Diplomacy and Nuclear Winter

“…67 Following private conversations in Erice with Aleksandrov, Gour e had concluded that his computer model was 'crude'; the result of a 'crash effort' to accommodate Crutzen's and Sagan's results. 68 The Erice meetings produced more controversy. In March 1985, Aleksandrov mysteriously disappeared in Madrid, 69 and the mystery heightened diplomatic tensions across the Iron Curtain as a member of the security team responsible for the Soviet delegation also went missing.…”