Word: sagan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sagan said that a nuclear exchange between the U.S. and the USSR would also "utterly destroy" developing countries and neutral countries, adding, "the fate of these nations depends profoundly on what the U.S. and Soviet Union...
...Sagan, the David Duncan Professor of Physical Science at Cornell, emphasized the "absolutely devastating" climatic effects on earth after a thermonuclear...
...Sagan based his arguments on a study he worked on with other scientists, including Professor of Geology Steven Jay Gould, that will be published later this month...
Using slides to illustrate his 90 minute presentation, Sagan said that following a nuclear war the earth would experience a dramatic drop in intercontinental temperatures, the partial destruction of the ozone layer, and the virtual ceasing of photosynthesis of green plants in the northern hemisphere...
...Sagan concluded his speech by saying that he found it "considerable" that the U.S. and the Soviet Union had been making decisions since the 1940s effecting all people, with no idea of the climatic consequences of a nuclear...