Public awareness of ‘nuclear winter’ too low given current risks, argues expert

Image credit: Pixabay / CC0 Public Domain. Article by University of Cambridge. Phys.org – February 13, 2023.

There is a lack of awareness among UK and US populations of “nuclear winter,” the potential for catastrophic long-term environmental consequences from any exchange of nuclear warheads. This is according to the researcher behind new polling conducted last month and released today by the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER). Paul Ingram, CSER senior research associate, says that—despite risks of a nuclear exchange being at their highest for 40 years due to Russian warmongering—what little awareness there is of nuclear winter among the public is mainly residual from the Cold War era. […]

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