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French security agents, innocent or otherwise of the sinking of Rainbow Warrior, have done more for Greenpeace than any other publicity stunt has done. Not only France will suffer.
A new calculation shows that smoke from nuclear conflagrations will reach the Southern Hemisphere from a northern nuclear war, especially in the northern summer. But many other problems persist.