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Owen B. Toon

joined in Mar 26, 2020

Professor at Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA.

Toon has 1 break published.

Rapid increase of nuclear weapons in India and Pakistan may lead to local and global catastrophes

India and Pakistan achieved independence from the United Kingdom just after World War II. During the partition of the British Indian Empire, the princely State of Jammu and Kashmir became divided between India, Pakistan and China. India and Pakistan have had four wars over control... click to read more

Owen B. Toon | Professor at Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA

Alan Robock | Distinguished Professor at Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

nuclear winter

nuclear war

famine

crop failure

Kashmir

Reading time 4 min

published on Mar 26, 2020