CATASTROPHE
A Quest For The Origins of the Modern World

David Keys

$5.95 - Soft Cover - Illustrated

 First Edition, February 2000 - Published by Ballantine Publishing Co.

ISBN:  0-345-40876-4 (Alk. Paper)

 Condition:  Good, One Owner

What made the sun go out? 

"In an effect, the mid-sixth-century climatic experience was the natural equivalent of what scientist fear would befall the world's climate in the event of nuclear war - the so-called nuclear winter.

In that appalling potential future disaster, hydrogen bomb explosions would force vast quantities of pulverized debris, dust, and temporarily vaporized earth up into the atmosphere.  There, this nuclear pollution would forma a barrier which would prevent much of the sun's light and heat from reaching the ground.  Temperatures would fall, the world's climate system would be thrown into chaos, and famine followed by epidemics would begin to rage.

The mid-sixth-century climatic catastrophe displayed all the hallmarks of nuclear winter.  But obviously there were no H-bombs in the first millennium A.D.  So what was the culprit?"

The PBS mini-series Catastrophe was based upon David Keys book