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Nu­clear winter

TagLast edit: 31 Mar 2022 13:07 UTC by Leo

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

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

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

Luisa_Rodriguez20 Jun 2019 1:48 UTC
136 points
18 comments40 min readEA link

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

MichaelA9 Feb 2023 15:41 UTC
79 points
3 comments5 min readEA link
(bit.ly)

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

Michael Hinge25 Aug 2023 15:45 UTC
147 points
22 comments27 min readEA link

Nu­clear risk re­search ideas: Sum­mary & introduction

MichaelA8 Apr 2022 11:17 UTC
103 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

2022 ALLFED highlights

Ross_Tieman28 Nov 2022 5:37 UTC
85 points
1 comment18 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

Nu­clear Risk Overview: CERI Sum­mer Re­search Fellowship

Will Aldred27 Mar 2022 15:51 UTC
57 points
2 comments13 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)

Famine deaths due to the cli­matic effects of nu­clear war

Vasco Grilo14 Oct 2023 12:05 UTC
40 points
20 comments66 min readEA link

In­ter­me­di­ate Re­port on Abrupt Sun­light Re­duc­tion Scenarios

Stan Pinsent20 Oct 2023 9:15 UTC
26 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

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

MichaelA15 Apr 2023 14:37 UTC
12 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Nu­clear win­ter scepticism

Vasco Grilo13 Aug 2023 10:55 UTC
110 points
42 comments10 min readEA link
(www.navalgazing.net)

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

Luisa_Rodriguez24 Dec 2020 22:10 UTC
287 points
37 comments50 min readEA link

ALLFED’s 2023 Highlights

Sonia_Cassidy1 Dec 2023 0:47 UTC
61 points
5 comments27 min readEA link

Lo­ca­tion Model­ling for Post-Nu­clear Re­fuge Bunkers

Bleddyn Mottershead14 Feb 2024 7:09 UTC
10 points
2 comments15 min readEA link

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

Re­search pro­ject idea: Nu­clear EMPs

MichaelA15 Apr 2023 14:43 UTC
18 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Miti­gat­ing x-risk through modularity

Toby Newberry17 Dec 2020 19:54 UTC
103 points
6 comments14 min readEA link

2021 ALLFED Highlights

Ross_Tieman17 Nov 2021 15:24 UTC
45 points
1 comment16 min readEA link

Mul­ti­ple high-im­pact PhD stu­dent positions

Denkenberger19 Nov 2022 0:02 UTC
32 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

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

Matt Boyd7 Aug 2022 2:18 UTC
36 points
6 comments19 min readEA link

Na­ture: Nu­clear war be­tween two na­tions could spark global famine

Tyner15 Aug 2022 20:55 UTC
15 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.nature.com)

One Hun­dred Opinions on Nu­clear War (Ladish, 2019)

Will Aldred29 Dec 2022 20:23 UTC
12 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(jeffreyladish.com)

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

Isabel3 Feb 2023 14:55 UTC
11 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

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

Christopher Chan31 Aug 2023 6:30 UTC
56 points
5 comments16 min readEA link

Start­ing the sec­ond Green Revolution

freedomandutility29 Jun 2023 12:23 UTC
30 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Ries­gos Catas­trófi­cos Globales needs funding

Jaime Sevilla1 Aug 2023 16:26 UTC
98 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

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

Vasco Grilo28 Mar 2023 7:43 UTC
12 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

Re­search pro­ject idea: In­ter­me­di­ate goals for nu­clear risk reduction

MichaelA15 Apr 2023 14:25 UTC
24 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

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

MichaelA15 Apr 2023 14:35 UTC
17 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

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

MichaelA15 Apr 2023 14:28 UTC
16 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

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

MichaelA15 Apr 2023 14:40 UTC
12 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

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

MichaelA15 Apr 2023 14:44 UTC
16 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

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

MichaelA15 Apr 2023 14:46 UTC
12 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

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

Vasco Grilo29 Apr 2023 8:24 UTC
46 points
39 comments13 min readEA link

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

MichaelA15 Apr 2023 14:50 UTC
16 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Re­search pro­ject idea: Direct and in­di­rect effects of nu­clear fallout

MichaelA15 Apr 2023 14:48 UTC
12 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Nu­clear war tail risk has been ex­ag­ger­ated?

Vasco Grilo25 Feb 2024 9:14 UTC
41 points
21 comments28 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

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

Vasco Grilo4 Mar 2023 16:22 UTC
20 points
0 comments28 min readEA link

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)

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

Denkenberger27 Nov 2017 2:23 UTC
24 points
5 comments8 min readEA link

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

Denkenberger29 Oct 2017 23:28 UTC
38 points
9 comments16 min readEA link

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

Mike Cassidy19 Aug 2022 12:02 UTC
107 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.nature.com)

Chap­ter 4 of The Precipice in poem form

Lauriander29 Nov 2023 9:12 UTC
20 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

EA re­silience to catas­tro­phes & ALLFED’s case study

Sonia_Cassidy23 Mar 2022 7:03 UTC
91 points
10 comments13 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

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)

New Nu­clear Se­cu­rity Syl­labus + Sum­mer Course

Maya D1 May 2023 17:02 UTC
45 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Geo­eng­ineer­ing to re­duce global catas­trophic risk?

Niklas Lehmann29 May 2022 15:50 UTC
7 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Sav­ing ex­pected lives at $10 apiece?

Denkenberger14 Dec 2016 15:38 UTC
15 points
23 comments2 min readEA link

Shal­low Re­port on Nu­clear War (Abol­ish­ment)

Joel Tan18 Oct 2022 7:36 UTC
35 points
14 comments18 min readEA link

Mili­tary Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence as Con­trib­u­tor to Global Catas­trophic Risk

MMMaas27 Jun 2022 10:35 UTC
40 points
0 comments54 min readEA link

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

[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)

Sum­mary of Ma­jor En­vi­ron­men­tal Im­pacts of Nu­clear Winter

Isabel9 Jul 2022 6:23 UTC
7 points
0 comments23 min readEA link

Best Coun­tries dur­ing Nu­clear War

AndreFerretti4 Mar 2022 11:19 UTC
7 points
15 comments1 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

EA on nu­clear war and expertise

bean28 Aug 2022 4:59 UTC
152 points
17 comments4 min readEA link

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

Buhl13 Feb 2023 19:00 UTC
38 points
2 comments16 min readEA link

Shal­low Re­port on Nu­clear War (Arse­nal Limi­ta­tion)

Joel Tan21 Feb 2023 4:57 UTC
44 points
13 comments29 min readEA link

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

Denkenberger19 Nov 2018 21:57 UTC
29 points
4 comments10 min readEA link

How Eng­ineers can Con­tribute to Re­duc­ing the Risks from Nu­clear War

Jessica Wen12 Oct 2023 13:22 UTC
33 points
4 comments22 min readEA link
(www.highimpactengineers.org)

2023 ALLFED Marginal Fund­ing Appeal

JuanGarcia17 Nov 2023 10:55 UTC
31 points
2 comments3 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)

A case against fo­cus­ing on tail-end nu­clear war risks

Sarah Weiler16 Nov 2022 6:08 UTC
31 points
13 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)

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

Nu­clear Risk and Philan­thropic Strat­egy [Founders Pledge]

christian.r25 Jul 2023 20:22 UTC
83 points
15 comments76 min readEA link
(www.founderspledge.com)
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