A Path Where No Man Thought, Carl Sagan
A Path Where No Man Thought, Carl Sagan
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A Path Where No Man Thought
Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race

Author: Carl Sagan, Richard Turco

Narrator: JD Jackson

Unabridged: 11 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/25/2017

Categories: Nonfiction, Science

Synopsis

The spread of nuclear weapons to unstable third world countries means that despite the dramatic improvement in US/Soviet relations, we are living in a time of unprecedented danger of nuclear war.In 1982, Professors Sagan and Turco made known their discovery of the concept "nuclear winter", a widespread cold and dark, resulting in agricultural collapse and world famine, that would be generated in even a "small" nuclear war. It was a landmark discovery that revealed in the starkest terms how vulnerable our civilization is to the long-term environmental effects of nuclear war.Carl Sagan, Pulitzer prize-winning science writer, and Richard Turco, tell the personal story of their findings, and how, despite the much-heralded thawing of the Cold War, there are dangerous inadequacies in nuclear policy and doctrine that need to be addressed.Introductory music from the original score for COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey composed by Alan Silvestri, used with permission from Cosmos Studios, Inc. and Chappers Music. All rights reserved. Special thanks to Fuzzy Planets, Inc.

About Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan (1934-1996) was the Director of Cornell University’s Laboratory for Planetary Studies. He played a leading role in the American space program and was an adviser to NASA since its inception. He briefed the Apollo astronauts before their flights to the Moon, and was an experimenter on the Mariner, Viking, Voyager, and Galileo expeditions to the planets. He helped solve the mysteries of the high temperatures of Venus (answer: massive greenhouse effect), the seasonal changes on Mars (answer: windblown dust), and the reddish haze of Titan (answer: complex organic molecules). For his work, Dr. Sagan received the NASA medals for Exceptional Scientific Achievement, and the Pulitzer Prize for The Dragons of Eden. His 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage won the Emmy and Peabody awards. The National Science Foundation declared that his “research transformed planetary science… his gifts to mankind were infinite.”

About Richard Turco

Richard P. Turco is Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Director of UCLA's Institute of the Environment.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Callum on November 03, 2017

Terrifying......more

Goodreads review by Gendou on March 23, 2022

I hate to say it, but this book is motivated by ideology more than science. Sagan lays out a clear case for the severe impacts of nuclear winter. That's about 5% of the book. The rest covers military and political strategy that I found completely uninteresting. TL;DR: Big nuclear wars cause fires th......more

Goodreads review by GeekChick on February 07, 2008

What I remember most of this book is that it scared the @#%$*& out of me! This was one of the earliest popular works about nuclear winter. As a teenager in the midst of the Cold War, it firmly influenced my thinking on this subject. Not for the weak at heart -- this book is certainly not written in......more

Goodreads review by Kate on August 20, 2015

Must-read despite the scientific redundancy. It's an acceptable redundancy imo due to the serious nature of the book. The sources take up nearly half of the book! Very well-researched and sourced. I'm interested in finding and reading a more modern account of the status of nuclear weapons worldwide.......more

Goodreads review by P.S. on November 08, 2017

Carl Sagan was a man ahead of his time, This book talks about nuclear war and what it really means. The author had no idea how close a new U.S. President might be at making that horrific future a possibility. No one wins a nuclear war, someone should make sure the leaders of all countries, especiall......more

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