{"id":218152,"date":"2022-08-22T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=218152"},"modified":"2022-08-18T07:36:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T06:36:13","slug":"the-story-of-nuclear-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/08\/the-story-of-nuclear-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of Nuclear Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/future-of-Life-Institute-logo.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-218153\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/future-of-Life-Institute-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a><em>6 Aug 2022 &#8211; <\/em>In the event of a nuclear war, smoke and soot, lofted into the stratosphere by nuclear firestorms and spread around the world by jet-streams, would block enough sunlight to create a \u2018nuclear winter\u2019, devastating global agriculture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Scientists predict that the resulting famine and civilizational collapse would kill most people on Earth. This video tells the story of this discovery. It\u2019s a story of how the world learnt that nuclear war\u2019s impacts were even worse than we previously thought, but it\u2019s also a story of hope, of scientific discovery, collaboration and outreach bringing about positive political change. After all, it was the bilateral scientific acceptance of nuclear winter which helped persuade both Gorbachev and Reagan to reduce their nuclear arsenals. Decades after that reduction of arsenals, Nuclear Winter has unfortunately faded from public consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EuzH43J0mrY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 Aug 2022 &#8211; In the event of a nuclear war, smoke and soot, lofted into the stratosphere by nuclear firestorms and spread around the world by jet-streams, would block enough sunlight to create a \u2018nuclear winter\u2019, devastating global agriculture. Scientists predict that the resulting famine and civilizational collapse would kill most people on Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1817,1253,519,401,1175,993,2090,2161,1476,1361,1301,450,2298,2911],"class_list":["post-218152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips","tag-anti-militarism","tag-demilitarization","tag-ecology","tag-environment","tag-extinction","tag-global-warming","tag-ican-international-campaign-to-abolish-nuclear-weapons","tag-militarism-and-science","tag-nuclear-abolition","tag-nuclear-disaster","tag-nuclear-war","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-nuclear-weapons-illegal","tag-nuclear-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}