'' The Cold and the Dark : The World after Nuclear War '' is a 1984 book by Paul R. Ehrlich , Carl Sagan , and Donald Kennedy . It makes dramatic long lasting climate predictions of the effect a nuclear winter would have on the Earth , an event that is suggested by the authors to follow both a city countervalue strike during a nuclear war , and especially following strikes on oil refineries and fuel depots
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The Cold and the Dark