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From: heahd@tellab1.UUCP (Dan Wood)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Survival in the Nuclear Winter
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Date: Mon, 11-Jun-84 13:32:33 EDT
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  Two excellant articles concerning nuclear winter appeared in the March and
April issues of Natural History magazine (published by The Americal Museum of
Natural History). The first (in the March issue) discussed the phenomenon in
general, how this model of aftermath was arrived at and the effects on life on
earth.  The author did postulate a few human survivors in the southeren
hemisphere but painted a pretty bleak picture for everything but a few plants
and insects in the north. The second article was Stephen Jay Gould's This View
of Life column in the april issue and was mostly concerened with what a shame 
it would be if one little species managed to wipe out 4 billion years work in 
a few hours. If I remember right, Mr. Gould didn't think the southeren 
hemisphere would fare much better than the north. In either case, nuclear 
winter is indeed a chilling (pun intended) prospect. As far as survivelism 
goes, I don't think all the guns, ammo, freeze-dried food, and bottled water 
in the world will be of much good if  this sceenario comes true.
-- 


                        Yrs. in Fear and Loathing,
                             The Blue Buffalo
                              Haunted by the -

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