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Nuclear winter is a severe and prolonged global climatic cooling effect triggered by stratospheric smoke from firestorms following a large-scale nuclear war.

civilizational collapse | existential risk | existential risk factor | nuclear security | nuclear warfare

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107How bad would nuclear winter caused by a US-Russia nuclear exchange be?
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412021 ALLFED Highlights
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263What is the likelihood that civilizational collapse would directly lead to human extinction (within decades)?
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73Updated estimates of the severity of a nuclear war
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73EA resilience to catastrophes & ALLFED’s case study
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48Nuclear Risk Overview: CERI Summer Research Fellowship
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45Nuclear war is unlikely to cause human extinction
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36Should we be spending no less on alternate foods than AI now?
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25Cost-Effectiveness of Foods for Global Catastrophes: Even Better than Before?
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24How you can save expected lives for $0.20-$400 each and reduce X risk
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20Book review: The Doomsday Machine
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