Dear Colleagues,
Brian Toon and I have just published our new book, /Earth in Flames: How
an Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs and How We Can Avoid a Similar Fate
From Nuclear Winter/. We hope that with the upcoming report from the
U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, to be
released on June 25,
https://www.nationalacademies.org/event/45265_06-2025_public-report-release-independent-study-on-potential-environmental-effects-of-nuclear-war
, that the world will be reminded of the dangers of continuing to
maintain nuclear arsenals, and provide motivation for more countries to
sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
*You can purchase our book* at
https://www.amazon.com/Earth-Flames-Asteroid-Dinosaurs-Similar/dp/0197799701/ref=sr_1_1
*Here is a description:* Sixty-six million years ago an asteroid as
large as Mt. Everest hit what is now the Yucatan Peninsula at a speed
ten times faster than the fastest rifle bullet. Debris from the impact
blew into space, re-entered the atmosphere as a swarm of shooting stars
that burned the global forests and grasslands, leaving behind a thin
global layer containing rock from the asteroid and from Mexico, and
smoke from the fires. This layer marks one of the greatest extinctions
in Earth history including not just dinosaurs, but also fish, plankton,
ammonites, and plants making up about 75% of the known species. The
major culprits in these extinctions are loss of sunlight due to
absorption by the smoke and decade-long ice age temperatures.
A nuclear war with just a few hundred of the world's 12,000
nuclear weapons targeted on densely populated cities could plunge Earth
into the same types of conditions that the dinosaurs experienced. Even a
war between India and Pakistan could kill 1 to 3 billion people from
starvation due to agricultural failure, while 6 billion people might
starve following a war involving Russia, NATO, and the U.S.
The book describes how the dinosaurs died, and how their deaths
parallel what might happen to people after a nuclear war. The book
reflects on the odds of future asteroid impacts, how to stop them, and
ends with what the readers personally and together can do to prevent a
nuclear war, so that humans don't end up like the dinosaurs.
*You can read the prologue at
*https://academic.oup.com/book/59891/chapter/511930013?guestAccessKey=622efd0e-f164-4106-b85d-117a07c22ebc
<https://academic.oup.com/book/59891/chapter/511930013?guestAccessKey=622efd0e-f164-4106-b85d-117a07c22ebc>
Earth in Flames: How an Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs and How We Can
Avoid a Similar Fate From Nuclear Winter
We hope you like the book.
Alan Robock
Alan Robock, Distinguished Professor
Editor, /Reviews of Geophysics
<https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/19449208>/(Impact
Factor 25.2) <https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/19449208>
Department of Environmental Sciences Phone: +1-848-932-5751
Rutgers University E-mail:
rob...@envsci.rutgers.edu
14 College Farm Road https://people.envsci.rutgers.edu/robock
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8551 ☮ @alanrobock.bsky.social
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Read our book: /Earth in Flames: How an Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs
and How We Can Avoid a Similar Fate From Nuclear Winter/
by Owen Brian Toon and Alan Robock
<https://www.amazon.com/Earth-Flames-Asteroid-Dinosaurs-Similar/dp/0197799701/ref=sr_1_1>
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