Edited sentence: <ref> Comrade J: The Untold Secrets Of Russia's Master Spy In America After the Cold War by Pete Early.<ref> name Early, Pete 2007 The retired KGB/SVR spy states that according to his research of old KGB files that the entire concept of a "nuclear winter" is in fact a giant piece of propaganda started in the 1970's by KGB director Yuri Andropov to undermine NATO.According to the Soviet release anyhow.It should also be noted that in the book Comrade J: The Untold Secrets Of Russia's Master Spy In America After the Cold War by Pete Early it states that the phrase "Nuclear Winter" is a concept promoted and developed by Dr.It was originally called the "anti-hot house effect".Kirill Kondrayev and other scientists funded by the Aleksandr Voyeykov Main Geophysical Observatory and Leningrad University.The scientists in question never submitted their experiments for scientific peer review and none of their work was the result of painstaking research