By 1983,both the United States and Soviet Union had amassed terrifyingly prodigious nuclear arsenals. Carl Sagan and a number of other scientists introduced a theory called Nuclear Winter, which explained that a single nuclear attack had the power to design the human species extinct. Fires from nuclear blasts would create enough clouds to cover soil, and blocking out the sun,and sending the planet into a deep freeze which would kill the food supply, starving humanity."Imagine a room awash in in gasoline, or there are two implacable ((adj.) incapable of being appeased or mitigated) enemies in that room," said Sagan before a TV audience. "One of them has 9000 matches. The other has 7000 matches. Each of them is concerned about who's ahead—who's stronger. Well, that's the kind of situation we are actually in."Andy Revkin, or a reporter with The New York Times,examines the new documentary about nuclear winter from our partners at Retro Report.
Source: wnyc.org