Nuclear winter

TagLast edit: 4 Apr 2024 18:19 UTC by Vasco Grilo🔸

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

How bad would nuclear winter caused by a US-Russia nuclear exchange be?

Luisa_Rodriguez20 Jun 2019 1:48 UTC

145 points

18 comments43 min readEA link

Technological developments that could increase risks from nuclear weapons: A shallow review

MichaelA🔸9 Feb 2023 15:41 UTC

80 points

3 comments5 min readEA link

(bit.ly)

A non-alarmist model of nuclear winter

Stan Pinsent15 Jul 2024 10:00 UTC

22 points

6 comments4 min readEA link

Nuclear risk research ideas: Summary & introduction

MichaelA🔸8 Apr 2022 11:17 UTC

103 points

4 comments7 min readEA link

2022 ALLFED highlights

Ross_Tieman28 Nov 2022 5:37 UTC

85 points

2 comments19 min readEA link

Nuclear winter—Reviewing the evidence, the complexities, and my conclusions

Michael Hinge25 Aug 2023 15:45 UTC

148 points

26 comments36 min readEA link

Risk and Resilience in the Face of Global Catastrophe: A Closer Look at New Zealand’s Food Security [link(s)post]

Matt Boyd27 Apr 2023 22:23 UTC

21 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Juan García Martínez: Industrial alternative foods for global catastrophic risks

EA Global21 Nov 2020 8:12 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

ALLFED’s 2024 Highlights

JuanGarcia18 Nov 2024 11:34 UTC

44 points

0 comments22 min readEA link

Intermediate Report on Abrupt Sunlight Reduction Scenarios

Stan Pinsent20 Oct 2023 9:15 UTC

31 points

6 comments4 min readEA link

Famine deaths due to the climatic effects of nuclear war

Vasco Grilo🔸14 Oct 2023 12:05 UTC

40 points

21 comments66 min readEA link

Research project idea: How should EAs react to funders pulling out of the nuclear risk space?

MichaelA🔸15 Apr 2023 14:37 UTC

12 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

Nuclear Risk Overview: CERI Summer Research Fellowship

Will Aldred27 Mar 2022 15:51 UTC

57 points

2 comments13 min readEA link

Nuclear winter scepticism

Vasco Grilo🔸13 Aug 2023 10:55 UTC

110 points

42 comments10 min readEA link

(www.navalgazing.net)

How will a nuclear war end?

Kinoshita Yoshikazu (pseudonym)23 Jun 2023 10:50 UTC

14 points

4 comments2 min readEA link

Updated estimates of the severity of a nuclear war

Luisa_Rodriguez19 Dec 2019 15:11 UTC

76 points

2 comments5 min readEA link

What is the likelihood that civilizational collapse would directly lead to human extinction (within decades)?

Luisa_Rodriguez24 Dec 2020 22:10 UTC

298 points

37 comments50 min readEA link

Relocation triggers

Denkenberger🔸14 Jun 2025 6:36 UTC

58 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

ALLFED’s 2023 Highlights

Sonia_Cassidy1 Dec 2023 0:47 UTC

61 points

5 comments27 min readEA link

Resilience to Nuclear & Volcanic Winter

Stan Pinsent9 Jul 2024 10:39 UTC

96 points

14 comments3 min readEA link

Location Modelling for Post-Nuclear Refuge Bunkers

Bleddyn Mottershead14 Feb 2024 7:09 UTC

10 points

2 comments15 min readEA link

Starting the second Green Revolution

freedomandutility29 Jun 2023 12:23 UTC

30 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Nature: Nuclear war between two nations could spark global famine

Tyner🔸15 Aug 2022 20:55 UTC

15 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.nature.com)

Research project idea: Climate, agricultural, and famine effects of nuclear conflict

MichaelA🔸15 Apr 2023 14:35 UTC

17 points

2 comments4 min readEA link

Islands, nuclear winter, and trade disruption as a human existential risk factor

Matt Boyd7 Aug 2022 2:18 UTC

37 points

6 comments19 min readEA link

Reading Group Launch: Introduction to Nuclear Issues, March-April 2023

Isabel3 Feb 2023 14:55 UTC

11 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

Riesgos Catastróficos Globales needs funding

Jaime Sevilla1 Aug 2023 16:26 UTC

104 points

1 comment3 min readEA link

Nuclear war, nuclear winter, and the food system: A contribution to the United Nations Independent Scientific Panel on the Effects of Nuclear War

FJehn23 Feb 2026 15:52 UTC

25 points

1 comment19 min readEA link

(existentialcrunch.substack.com)

Research project idea: Overview of nuclear-risk-related projects and stakeholders

MichaelA🔸15 Apr 2023 14:40 UTC

12 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

Nuclear war tail risk has been exaggerated?

Vasco Grilo🔸25 Feb 2024 9:14 UTC

48 points

24 comments28 min readEA link

2021 ALLFED Highlights

Ross_Tieman17 Nov 2021 15:24 UTC

45 points

1 comment16 min readEA link

Research project idea: How bad would the worst plausible nuclear conflict scenarios be?

MichaelA🔸15 Apr 2023 14:50 UTC

16 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

Mitigating x-risk through modularity

Toby Newberry17 Dec 2020 19:54 UTC

103 points

6 comments14 min readEA link

More than Earth Warriors: The Diverse Roles of Geoscientists in Effective Altruism

Christopher Chan 🔸31 Aug 2023 6:30 UTC

56 points

5 comments16 min readEA link

MIT hiring: Climatic effects of limited nuclear wars and “averting armageddon”

christian.r15 Mar 2024 15:14 UTC

16 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

Research project idea: Intermediate goals for nuclear risk reduction

MichaelA🔸15 Apr 2023 14:25 UTC

24 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

Research project idea: Neartermist cost-effectiveness analysis of nuclear risk reduction

MichaelA🔸15 Apr 2023 14:46 UTC

12 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

Increase in future potential due to mitigating food shocks caused by abrupt sunlight reduction scenarios

Vasco Grilo🔸28 Mar 2023 7:43 UTC

12 points

2 comments8 min readEA link

ALLFED emergency appeal: Help us raise $800,000 to avoid cutting half of programs

Denkenberger🔸16 Apr 2025 21:33 UTC

201 points

14 comments3 min readEA link

Research project idea: Polling or message testing related to nuclear risk reduction and relevant goals/interventions

MichaelA🔸15 Apr 2023 14:44 UTC

16 points

1 comment3 min readEA link

More global warming might be good to mitigate the food shocks caused by abrupt sunlight reduction scenarios

Vasco Grilo🔸29 Apr 2023 8:24 UTC

46 points

39 comments13 min readEA link

Research project idea: Technological developments that could increase risks from nuclear weapons

MichaelA🔸15 Apr 2023 14:28 UTC

17 points

0 comments7 min readEA link

Research project idea: Direct and indirect effects of nuclear fallout

MichaelA🔸15 Apr 2023 14:48 UTC

12 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

Research project idea: Nuclear EMPs

MichaelA🔸15 Apr 2023 14:43 UTC

18 points

1 comment3 min readEA link

One Hundred Opinions on Nuclear War (Ladish, 2019)

Will Aldred29 Dec 2022 20:23 UTC

12 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

(jeffreyladish.com)

Multiple high-impact PhD student positions

Denkenberger🔸19 Nov 2022 0:02 UTC

32 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

Future benefits of mitigating food shocks caused by abrupt sunlight reduction scenarios

Vasco Grilo🔸4 Mar 2023 16:22 UTC

20 points

0 comments28 min readEA link

Cost-Effectiveness of Foods for Global Catastrophes: Even Better than Before?

Denkenberger🔸19 Nov 2018 21:57 UTC

29 points

5 comments10 min readEA link

Manipulating the global thermostat: Climate change, nuclear winter, and stratospheric aerosol injections

FJehn3 Sep 2025 9:14 UTC

23 points

5 comments12 min readEA link

(existentialcrunch.substack.com)

Best Countries during Nuclear War

AndreFerretti4 Mar 2022 11:19 UTC

7 points

15 comments1 min readEA link

Summary of Major Environmental Impacts of Nuclear Winter

Isabel9 Jul 2022 6:23 UTC

7 points

0 comments23 min readEA link

Speedrun: Demonstrate the ability to rapidly scale food production in the case of nuclear winter

Buhl13 Feb 2023 19:00 UTC

39 points

2 comments16 min readEA link

Infographics of the Report food security in Argentina in the event of an Abrupt Reduction of Sunlight Scenario (ASRS)

JorgeTorresC31 Jul 2023 19:36 UTC

25 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

[Crosspost]: Huge volcanic eruptions: time to prepare (Nature)

Mike Cassidy 🔸19 Aug 2022 12:02 UTC

107 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.nature.com)

How would a nuclear war between Russia and the US affect you personally?

Max Görlitz27 Jul 2023 13:06 UTC

13 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

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

80000_Hours27 Mar 2024 19:17 UTC

52 points

2 comments7 min readEA link

Retrospective on recent activity of Riesgos Catastróficos Globales

Jaime Sevilla1 May 2023 18:35 UTC

45 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] How have nuclear winter models evolved?

Jordan Arel11 Sep 2022 22:40 UTC

14 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Ok Doomer! SRM and Catastrophic Risk Podcast

GideonF20 Aug 2022 12:22 UTC

10 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

(open.spotify.com)

The danger of nuclear war is greater than it has ever been. Why donating to and supporting Back from the Brink is an effective response to this threat

astupple2 Aug 2022 2:31 UTC

14 points

8 comments5 min readEA link

ALLFED needs your support for global catastrophe preparedness

JuanGarcia11 Nov 2024 22:50 UTC

45 points

5 comments4 min readEA link

Chapter 4 of The Precipice in poem form

Lauriander29 Nov 2023 9:12 UTC

20 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Military Artificial Intelligence as Contributor to Global Catastrophic Risk

MMMaas27 Jun 2022 10:35 UTC

42 points

0 comments52 min readEA link

Shallow Report on Nuclear War (Abolishment)

Joel Tan🔸18 Oct 2022 7:36 UTC

35 points

14 comments18 min readEA link

Identifying Geographic Hotspots for Post-Catastrophe Recovery

LNE1 Mar 2025 19:42 UTC

14 points

6 comments33 min readEA link

Saving expected lives at $10 apiece?

Denkenberger🔸14 Dec 2016 15:38 UTC

15 points

23 comments2 min readEA link

Resilient foods: How to feed everyone, even in the worst of times

FJehn19 Dec 2024 11:12 UTC

11 points

1 comment7 min readEA link

(existentialcrunch.substack.com)

How Engineers can Contribute to Reducing the Risks from Nuclear War

Jessica Wen 🔸12 Oct 2023 13:22 UTC

33 points

4 comments22 min readEA link

(www.highimpactengineers.org)

Geoengineering to reduce global catastrophic risk?

Niklas Lehmann29 May 2022 15:50 UTC

7 points

3 comments10 min readEA link

EA on nuclear war and expertise

bean28 Aug 2022 4:59 UTC

156 points

17 comments4 min readEA link

Book review: The Doomsday Machine

L Rudolf L18 Aug 2021 22:15 UTC

21 points

0 comments16 min readEA link

(strataoftheworld.blogspot.com)

Don’t Let Other Global Catastrophic Risks Fall Behind: Support ORCG in 2024

JorgeTorresC11 Nov 2024 18:27 UTC

48 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

A case against focusing on tail-end nuclear war risks

Sarah Weiler16 Nov 2022 6:08 UTC

32 points

15 comments10 min readEA link

Jacob Cates and Aron Mill: Scaling industrial food production in nuclear winter

EA Global18 Oct 2019 18:05 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

How you can save expected lives for $0.20-$400 each and reduce X risk

Denkenberger🔸27 Nov 2017 2:23 UTC

24 points

5 comments8 min readEA link

New Nuclear Security Syllabus + Summer Course

Maya D1 May 2023 17:02 UTC

45 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

Should we be spending no less on alternate foods than AI now?

Denkenberger🔸29 Oct 2017 23:28 UTC

38 points

9 comments16 min readEA link

Shallow Report on Nuclear War (Arsenal Limitation)

Joel Tan🔸21 Feb 2023 4:57 UTC

44 points

16 comments29 min readEA link

Nuclear war is unlikely to cause human extinction

Jeffrey Ladish7 Nov 2020 5:39 UTC

61 points

27 comments11 min readEA link

2023 ALLFED Marginal Funding Appeal

JuanGarcia17 Nov 2023 10:55 UTC

33 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

Nuclear Risk and Philanthropic Strategy [Founders Pledge]

christian.r25 Jul 2023 20:22 UTC

83 points

15 comments76 min readEA link

(www.founderspledge.com)

Report: Food Security in Argentina in the event of an Abrupt Sunlight Reduction Scenario (ASRS)

JorgeTorresC27 Apr 2023 21:00 UTC

66 points

3 comments3 min readEA link

(riesgoscatastroficosglobales.com)

EA resilience to catastrophes & ALLFED’s case study

Sonia_Cassidy23 Mar 2022 7:03 UTC

91 points

10 comments13 min readEA link

Database of research projects for volunteers in food security during global catastrophes (ALLFED)

JuanGarcia26 Sep 2024 19:39 UTC

47 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

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