On May 14, 3:08 pm, Fergus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> What effect, if any, did the atmospheric nuclear tests of > 1947-63 have on
> the climate?
In statement after statement, the US Atomic Energy Commission, and the
US military claimed that they
never altered a single weather pattern with their
nuclear tests. It is a matter of scale. The biggest
US atmospheric test was ~1 Megaton, which is puny
compared to the amount of energy the planetary
weather system dissipates. I believe the Russians
fired the record test, a couple of dozen megatons,
and that test may have melted enough ice to change
things for short while. However, if you are looking
for some long-term wide-area climate change, like
global warming or nuclear winter, from just a single
atomic detonation, forget it. The climate system is
so much bigger.
Good luck finding papers. I wouldn't know where
to find old AEC press releases and literature, but
that is where I would start. Try cross posting this
to alt.war.nuclear and see what they know.
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