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Page 4—The North Texas Daily
Thursday, December 1,1983
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Experts cite atomic
blasts' aftereffects
Editor's note: This is the first part of a two-part
series.
By TONYA McMURRAY
Daily Reporter
j The civil defense sirens sound. People head for
the nearest fallout shelter.
On the horizon, a blinding light Hashes, followed
by devastating shock waves which level buildings
and shatter windows.
Huge, dark mushroom clouds appear, and then all
is quiet.
Those lucky enough to have made it to the fallout
shelters before the nuclear blasts are safe, for the
time being. They wait the allotted time, and then
come out to try to rebuild a civilization which has
destroyed itself.
ACCORDING TO a report released in late Oc-
tober, the world would be a cold, dark place, and
even those who survived the initial blasts would be
subject to disease and starvation.
For the past 18 months, a group of more than 100
scientists, headed by astronomer Carl Sagan. have
studied the effects of a nuclear war.
Their conclusions indicate that the effects of a nu-
clear war could be far worse than previously thought.
They based their findings on studies of climactic
models and computer simulations.
Dr. Kent McGregor of the geology faculty said it
is important to realize the climatic models the scien-
tists used are designed for use in weather forecast-
ing, not for predicting the effects of a nuclear war.
McGregor said it is also important to realize that no
one can really know what the effects of a nuclear
war would be.
A 5,000-megaton nuclear exchange, which would
involve only one-third of the world's nuclear arse-
nal, would cause drastic climatic changes, the report
said.
According to the study, the smoke and dust from
nuclear fires would block the sun's light and thus
kill plants.
McGREGOR SAID this is really hard to judge
because plants need different amounts of light, and
because it would depend on the amount of dust put
into the air.
Studies do indicate, however, that once small par-
ticles of dust get very high in the atmosphere, they
can stay there a long time, McGregor said.
Another point of the study says global airflows
would quickly spread nuclear debris to the Southern
Hemispere.
McGregor said this is very possible because global
circulation is much more interconnected than was
once thought.
It might take a while before the debris reached
the Southern Hemisphere, but McGregor said he
believed it would eventually spread.
"Anyone that says a nuclear exchange is just going
to be limited to the Northern Hemisphere is a wish-
ful thinker," McGregor said.
A THIRD POINT in the study is that the nuclear
war would cause a "nuclear winter," with tempera-
tures in many areas falling below freezing. The re-
port also predicts that many areas would be subject
to heavy snowfall for several months.
This nuclear winter would occur even if the war
took place in the summer.
McGregor said the prediction of very cold tem-
peratures is responsible.
The atmosphere is relatively transparent, McGregor
said. The sun heats the ground and the ground heats
the air. If the dust and smoke from fires blocked the
sunlight, then the light could not get through to warm
the ground, so very cold temperatures would result.
Scientists already know dust from volcano erup-
tions causes cooler temperatures, so it is reasonable
to assume that the dust from nuclear fires would also.
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unlikely place to hold a submarine party.
But that's exactly what the U.S. Navy is
planning next week.
The guest of honor—the nuclear powered
attack submarine USS Dallas—won't be
there, but 60 of its crew members will.
And city officials from the sub's name-
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"Under normal circumstances, this might
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"On Wednesday the crew and the city
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city and the submarine," he said.
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ficials, including city Manager Charles
Anderson. The sub will be open to visitors
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a crowd of 1,000 each day. Matson said
the visit was requested by Captain Rusty
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"This was all planned at the initiative of
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Gauer, Ralph. The North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 53, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 1, 1983, newspaper, December 1, 1983; Denton, TX. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth332605/m1/4/: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.