Nuclear Niño response observed in simulations of nuclear war scenarios

Environmental consequences of nuclear war

groups made valuable contributions to elaborating the consequences of nuclear warfare.1 Paul Crutzen and John Birks proposed that massive fires and smoke emissions in the lower atmosphere after a global nuclear exchange would create severe short-term environmental aftereffects. Extending their work, two of us (Toon and Turco) and colleagues discovered “nuclear winter,” which posited that worldw...

Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War

I-12: Nuclear Reprogramming in Bovin Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer

Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT or cloning) returns a differentiated cell to a totipotent status; a process termed nuclear reprogramming. Reproductive cloning has potential applications in both agriculture and biomedicine, but is limited by low efficiency. To understand the deficiencies of nuclear reprogramming, our research has focused on both candidate genes and global gene expression pat...

Nuclear lattice simulations

We summarize recent progress on nuclear lattice simulations using chiral effective field theory. We present lattice results for dilute neutron matter at next-to-leading order and three-body forces in light nuclei at next-to-next-to-leading order.

Nuclear War in Europe: A Thought Experiment