Vladimir Alexandrov

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Vladimir V. Alexandrov was a Russian physicist who created the mathematical model for the Nuclear Winter theory. He disappeared in 1985 while at a Nuclear Winter conference in Madrid and his ultimate fate remains unknown.

[edit] Research

A pioneer in global climate modelling, he presented a mathematical solution to baroclinicity in 1982.[1] The following year he used the model to calculate the consequences of nuclear war[2] and the prospects of nuclear winter.

[edit] Disappearance

According to article in Time magazine, "The mystery of his disappearance has been compounded by the suspicions of some Western scientists that the nuclear winter scenario was promoted by Moscow to give antinuclear groups in the U.S. and Europe some fresh ammunition against America's arms buildup. Conspiracy theorists speculate that Alexandrov was planning to renounce the nuclear winter concept and may have been kidnaped by the KGB. According to another theory, the physicist defected to the West."[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Alexandrov, V. V. 1982. A general atmospheric circulation model with baroclinic arrangement. Rep. Acad. Sci. USSR 265(5):1094-1097.
  2. ^ Alexandrov, V. V. and G. I. Stenchikov (1983): "On the modeling of the climatic consequences of the nuclear war" The Proceeding of Appl. Mathematics, 21 p., The Computing Center of the AS USSR, Moscow.
  3. ^ A 1985 Time magazine account of Alexandrov's disappearance