Tag: nuclear weapons

• Carl Sagan, nuclear winter, and the “climate wars”

  [ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! If you like my writing and want to support it, please donate to my Patreon. ] When Carl Sagan Warned the World About Nuclear Winter Before the official report came […]

  Matthew R. Francis

  November 16, 2017

  Smithsonian Magazine

  Carl Sagan, climate change, nuclear weapons, nuclear winter

• Bathing asteroids with nuclear weapons

  [ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] A gentle nudge with a nuke: deflecting Earth-bound asteroids From Ars Technica: In 2013, a small asteroid exploded in the atmosphere over Chelyabinsk, Russia. The sonic boom from the […]

  Matthew R. Francis

  April 27, 2015

  Ars Technica

  asteroid moons, asteroids, nuclear weapons, planetary science, protecting Earth, space exploration