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Rutgers University — Nuclear Conflict Climate Modeling (2020)

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  • Category: Longtermism
  • Organization Name: Rutgers University
  • Amount: $3,000,000

  • Award Date: April 2020

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    The environmental and human impacts of nuclear war are many and complex. (Photo courtesy of Rutgers University.)

    Grant investigator: Claire Zabel

    This page was reviewed but not written by the grant investigator. Rutgers University staff also reviewed this page prior to publication.


    Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $3,000,000 over three years to Rutgers University to support research conducted by Professors Alan Robock and Owen Brian Toon on the potential climatological and subsequent ecological and social effects of large nuclear conflicts.

    This follows our March 2017 support and falls within our focus area of global catastrophic risks.

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