Carl Sagan on Preventing Nuclear Winter by Carl Sagan on Free Online Audio

Scientist Carl Sagan describes what a nuclear winter would be like in this short interview from 1991. He hypothesized what this would be like in his 1990 book A Path Where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race. While the book was published at the tail end of the Cold War, Sagan pressed for urgency with regard to arms reduction as he acknowledged that two superpowers possessing thousands of nuclear warheads were still a hazardous situation as we never know the kind of leaders who would take control of these weapons in the future. In nuclear winter, sunlight would effectively be blocked, leading to global cooling and causing widespread crop failure and famine. Sagan also discussed the potential effects of the Kuwaiti oil fires at the start of the first Iraq War and talked about other pressing environmental issues on our "pale blue dot."

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