Is Nuclear Winter a Climate Issue?

Norman Solomon: Is Nuclear Winter a Climate Issue?

Nuclear Winter by ₡ґǘșϯγ Ɗᶏ Ⱪᶅṏⱳդ is licensed under CC0 1.0 / Flickr By Norman Solomon / TomDispatch Thirty-five years after the start of the nuclear age with the first explosion of an atomic bomb, I visited the expanse of desert known as the Nevada Test Site, an hour’s drive northwest of Las Vegas. A pair of officials from the Department of Energy took me on a tour. They explained that nuclear tests were absolutely necessary. “Nuclear weapons a…

Is Nuclear Winter a climate issue?

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Is Nuclear Winter a Climate Issue?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Thirty-five years after the start of the nuclear age with the first explosion of an atomic bomb, I visited the expanse of desert known as the Nevada Test Site, an hour’s drive northwest of Las Vegas. A pair of officials from the Department of Energy took me on a tour. They explained that nuclear tests were absolutely necessary. “Nuclear weapons are like automobiles,” one told me. “Ford doesn’t put a new automobile out on th…