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"Darren New" <dne### [at] san rr com> a écrit dans le message de
news:4a4a38fd$1@news.povray.org...
> No, but Sagan and Feynman and the other scientists who talked about it
> have admitted they made the whole thing up.
The WP page about nuclear winter seems to indicate that while the concept is
debated it's still supported by contemporary research (what is under debate
is how dramatic it would be, which is what one would expect from a
mathematical model) and that the main critic was a guy writing survival
books. Also, there's a paper here
http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/88spp.html about the comments by
Dyson, Feynman and others where the author re-interviewed them a few years
later with interesting results. In a nutshell, just like creationism and
global warming today, it seems that this was instrumentalised in the US for
local political gain by the usual suspects, which is probably why these
"controversies" don't seem to cross the Atlantic and Pacific (or lose
considerable strength when they arrive on the other side).
G.
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