An opinion poll on nuclear winter awareness released by Pual Ingram on 14 February suggests a low public awareness of likely global ‘nuclear winter’ climate effects from mass nuclear detonations, yet a strong reluctance to support nuclear retaliation in response to a fictional Russian nuclear attack on Ukraine. Support for nuclear retaliation amongst voters for the parties for the US President and UK government in this particular exercise was a full one third lower amongst participants informed of the likely global climatic consequences.
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