The Moment We Visualized the Anthropocene: Nuclear Winter and other Disasters

Rispoli, Giulia

doi:10.58049/0563-zh20

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The Moment We Visualized the Anthropocene: Nuclear Winter and other Disasters

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Rispoli, Giulia
Department Structural Changes in Systems of Knowledge, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Max Planck Society;

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Rispoli, G. (2022). The Moment We Visualized the Anthropocene: Nuclear Winter and other Disasters. In C. Rosol, & G. Rispoli (Eds.), Anthropogenic Markers: Stratigraphy and Context. Berlin: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. doi:10.58049/0563-zh20.

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Abstract

According to the Nuclear Winter theory, a thermonuclear conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union could cool down the Earth’s temperature to such an extent that it would alter the atmospheric processes as well as the biological components of the planet. Books, articles, and reports on this topic appeared in the 1980s. Films and visuals attracted media attention. But the Nuclear Winter soon became controversial. Lying at the intersection of climate science and biosphere studies, Giulia Rispoli shows how research on the Nuclear Winter became the subject of extensive smear campaigns, missing the occasion to offer a visual prophecy of the Anthropocene.