Word: winterizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lawmen in the remote Montana wilderness near Bozeman. Many residents figured that the fugitives, wanted for the July kidnaping of Kari Swenson, a member of the U.S. biathlon team, and for the murder of a man who helped rescue her, had fled the frigid region before the onset of winter. But not Sheriff Johnny France, who had attended the same high school as the elder Nichols. "I'm a mountain man too," he insisted. "It will take one to catch one. I'll get them...
...major study supports the grim prediction of nuclear winter...
...nuclear war could be followed by a period of icy gloom. Later, Atmospheric Scientist Richard Turco of R&D Associates in Marina del Rey, Calif., Astronomer Carl Sagan of Cornell University and a handful of other researchers elaborated on the idea, concluding that the cold, which they called nuclear winter, could last for months. Some scientists have disagreed with a few of the more extreme predictions of this hypothesis, which has been given its first official stamp of credibility by the 193-page N.A.S. report. Declared Committee Member Turco: "This legitimizes the problem...
...chairman of the 18-member committee, the N.A.S. findings were "consistent" with the original studies, which predicted global cooling and severe hardship for any survivors. The panel recommended that high priority be given to serious research to try to answer some of the more elusive questions that the nuclear-winter theory has raised...
...answers could eventually play a role in formulating the nation's defense strategy. Already one U.S. Government defense study, prepared by the Center for Aerospace Doctrine, Research and Education in Montgomery, Ala., has based its policy analyses on the assumption that the nuclear-winter theory is correct. Says Theodore Postol, a strategic-arms consultant at Stanford University: "I see this as a vehicle to raise questions about our whole nuclear strategy...