United Press International: Cold War research and the science used to track radioactivity and model nuclear bomb blasts are making contributions to climate science, researcher say. Climate science and nuclear weapons testing have a long and perhaps surprisingly intimate relationship, University of Michigan historian Paul Edwards writes in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. After the 2011 Fukushima disaster, for example, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization tracked the radioactive plume emanating from damaged...
URL: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/07/13/Climate-science-has-Cold-War-roots/UPI-13581342220049/
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