I’m fairly confident that at least some nuclear war planners have thought deeply about the risks of climate change from nuclear war because I’ve talked to a researcher at RAND who basically told me as much, plus the group at Los Alamos who published papers about it, both of which seem like strong evidence that some nuclear war planners have taken it seriously. Reisner et al., “Climate Impact of a Regional Nuclear Weapons Exchange: An Improved Assessment Based On Detailed Source Calculations” is mostly Los Alamos scientists I believe.
Just because some of these researchers & nuclear war planners have thought deeply about it doesn’t mean nuclear policy will end up being sane and factoring in the risks. But I think it provides some evidence in that direction.
I’m fairly confident that at least some nuclear war planners have thought deeply about the risks of climate change from nuclear war because I’ve talked to a researcher at RAND who basically told me as much, plus the group at Los Alamos who published papers about it, both of which seem like strong evidence that some nuclear war planners have taken it seriously. Reisner et al., “Climate Impact of a Regional Nuclear Weapons Exchange: An Improved Assessment Based On Detailed Source Calculations” is mostly Los Alamos scientists I believe.
Just because some of these researchers & nuclear war planners have thought deeply about it doesn’t mean nuclear policy will end up being sane and factoring in the risks. But I think it provides some evidence in that direction.