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jonathan
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Viewpoint: 'The Day After' Panel

DebateTelevisionABC News — Viewpoint/ Following the broadcast of 'The Day After' (ABC TV-movie)20 November 1983USA — ABC News (national broadcast)#education#unitedstates#apocalypse
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Ted Koppel hosts an 80-minute panel discussion airing immediately after the ABC TV-movie The Day After — Sagan's first major TV deployment of the 'nuclear winter' framing, alongside Kissinger, McNamara, Buckley, Wiesel, and Scowcroft.

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jonathan
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Exobiology Grant Proposal (Dictation)

OtherOtherLibrary of Congress — Seth MacFarlane Carl Sagan Archive/ Working dictation tape16 September 1983Ithaca, NY — Cornell UniversityCarl SaganNarrator#boston#jupiter#galileo

Sagan dictating a draft NASA exobiology grant proposal — discusses amino acids, tholins, and methane in Titan's atmosphere; representative of how Sagan composed first drafts.

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jonathan
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Pale Blue Dot (Sagan Reading)

OtherAudiobookPale Blue Dot — A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Random House / Brilliance Audio)1994Carl SaganNarrator#religion#science#war
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Sagan reading the iconic 'Pale Blue Dot' passage — a meditation on Earth as seen from the edge of the solar system.

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jonathan
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Keynote: Global Changes in the Environment

SpeechLive Event5th Annual Emerging Issues Forum (NC Public TV)/ 5th Annual Emerging Issues Forum9 February 1990Raleigh, NC — NC State UniversityCarl SaganSpeaker#climatechange#carlsagan#mars
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Sagan's prescient 1990 keynote on global climate change, military spending, and a sustainable energy future.

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