Tag: Lawrence Badash
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The Long Cold Nuclear Winter
Reviewing a book by one’s own mentor, especially when that mentor has recently passed on, can be a difficult enterprise. And yet Larry Badash’s final book, published the year before his death, is worth the task. For those who knew him, A Nuclear Winter’s Tale appears as an expression of a life’s work in scholarship.…
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Farewell, Larry. My Reflections on Badash, A Nuclear Winter's Tale: Science and Politics in the 1980s
I’ve included my personal reflections on Larry Badash’s final book (he passed away last year) here, in mp3 (audio) format. Although I have written an essay review about Badash and the book for Metascience, I thought I would elaborate on some things that were not quite appropriate in an academic review. It includes some stories…
Jacob Darwin Hamblin 