conversation. What is the story that surprised you most? What story surprised me most? Maybe the nuclear winter story? Yeah. But it's a tough question. You're putting me on the spot, but maybe that story? Yeah, the nuclear winter story just to tease out the gist and the morale of the story in the book is fascinating because there's this theory that takes hold in the early 1980s that a nuclear war, global nuclear war, a major nuclear exchange between the superpowers could kick up so much debris and dust and smoke into the atmosphere that there could be a regional or potentially an entire winter-like scenario on the entire northern hemisphere, potentially even the entire planet as a result of this war, meaning temperatures would drop and the entire climate would be messed up for years. So that theory, the question is where does that theory come from? And what's fascinating about the story to me is that this is one of the examples where this theory organically emerges in the scientific (23/43)
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