Nuclear risk skepticism

TagLast edit: Feb 28, 2024, 1:43 PM by Vasco Grilo🔸

Nuclear risk skepticism is skepticism about arguments that nuclear war or nuclear winter pose a catastrophic or existential risk.

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Nuclear war is unlikely to cause human extinction

Jeffrey LadishNov 7, 2020, 5:39 AM

61 points

27 comments11 min readEA link

Nuclear war tail risk has been exaggerated?

Vasco Grilo🔸Feb 25, 2024, 9:14 AM

48 points

22 comments28 min readEA link

Famine deaths due to the climatic effects of nuclear war

Vasco Grilo🔸Oct 14, 2023, 12:05 PM

40 points

21 comments66 min readEA link

Nuclear winter scepticism

Vasco Grilo🔸Aug 13, 2023, 10:55 AM

110 points

42 comments10 min readEA link

(www.navalgazing.net)

A non-alarmist model of nuclear winter

Stan PinsentJul 15, 2024, 10:00 AM

22 points

6 comments4 min readEA link

Why we’re entering a new nuclear age — and how to reduce the risks (Christian Ruhl on the 80k After Hours Podcast)

80000_HoursMar 27, 2024, 7:17 PM

52 points

2 comments7 min readEA link

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