By December 10, Kearny believed all hope was gone, and planned to attempt a breakout the next morning.

The original work by Sagan and others was criticized as a " myth " and " discredited theory " in the 1987 book Nuclear War Survival Skills, a civil defense manual by Cresson Kearny for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Kearny, who was not a climate scientist himself, based his conclusions almost entirely on the 1986 paper " Nuclear Winter Reappraised " by Starley Thompson and Stephen Schneider.

Ordered by Kearny to report to the adjutant general in Washington to stand for court-martial, Frémont was convicted of mutiny, disobedience of a superior officer and military misconduct.

The same situation resulted in the 19th century in Kearney, Nebraska, when that community was named for Mexican War General Stephen W. Kearny.

It was named after Fort Kearny, which in turn was named after Brigade General Stephen W. Kearny.

In 1889, the name was corrected to Kearny County.

The town was named after General Stephen Watts Kearny, who passed through the area on November 7, 1846 while leading 100 dragoons to California.

Kearny was officially incorporated in 1959.

In 1846 Ortega's rancho was visited by US Army General Stephen W. Kearny, on his way to the Battle of San Pasqual.

In the 19th century, the " Great Platte River Road "— the valley of the Platte and North Platte rivers running from Fort Kearny to Fort Laramie — was the principal route of the westward expansion.

The Borough of East Newark was established on July 3, 1895, from portions of Kearny lying between the Erie Railroad's Newark Branch right of way and Harrison, based on the results of a referendum held the previous day.

During the ensuing battle, which was fought amid a raging storm, both Union generals Stevens and Kearny were killed.

The Military Police section of the 115th Train Headquarters and Military Police was reorganized and redesignated 27 October 1918 as the 40th Military Police Company, an element of the 40th Division ; 115th Train Headquarters and Military Police concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 115th Train Headquarters, 40th Military Police Company demobilized 2 May 1919 at Camp Kearny, California ; 115th Train Headquarters demobilized 25 April 1919 at Camp Kearny, California.

The work was continued by John Kearny, his assistant, and Dr Nehemiah Donnellan, Archbishop of Tuam ; it was finally completed by William Daniel ( Uilliam Ó Domhnaill ), Archbishop of Tuam in succession to Donellan.

The base headquarters was established on November 4, 1942 and the first landing occurred in late November when a Major Micheal Carmichael, flying from Camp Kearny, was forced to make an emergency landing among the construction equipment.

He was inspired by the division patches used earlier by Maj. Gen. Philip Kearny, but extended those to the full army and designed most of the patches himself.

One of the earliest and most significant events in BattleTech technology was the advent of faster-than-light travel, the principles of which were first described by Stanford University physicists Thomas Kearny and Takayoshi Fuchida in 2018.

During the years of early pioneer settlement, in 1846 the US Army built Old Fort Kearny at Nebraska City.

* The General Philip Kearny Public School in Philadelphia was named for him when built in 1921.

For example, on the South Kearny, NJ, peninsula, where the canal ran just south of and parallel to the Lincoln Highway, now U. S. Route 1 / 9 Truck, the cross-highway bridges for Central Avenue and the rail spur immediately to its east were built to span the highway and the canal, resulting in spans that today seem unnecessarily long.

The Kearny Connection was built in the 1990s to connect the DL & W to the former Pennsylvania Railroad line to New York Penn Station that crosses above the DL & W there.

Around 1994, a short elevated track, known as the Marion Running Track, was built to connect the Passaic and Harsimus Line towards Kearny with the Northern Branch.

Two branches in Kearny were acquired, the Meadows Branch being built 1917-1918 by the UNJ and the Meadows Branch No. 2 being bought October 15, 1917 from Newark Factory Sites, Inc.

Assigned to protect the Bozeman Trail, he built and personally manned the remote Fort Phil Kearny during Red Cloud's War.

The Harrison Cut-Off was also built around this time as a connection from the Boonton Branch at Kingsland south to the main line in Kearny.

The I-Hotel, officially known as the International Hotel, was built in 1907 after the devastating 1906 earthquake and was a low-cost residential hotel located at the corner of Kearny and Jackson Streets in the Manilatown section of San Francisco.

Plans are in the reference Nuclear War Survival Skills by Cresson Kearny.

Kearny sent the mail on to Washington by another courier.

Kearny arrived in San Diego by December 12.

Kearny said the maximum estimated temperature drop would be only about by 20 degrees Fahrenheit ( 11 degrees Celsius ), and that this amount of cooling would last only a few days.

The economic base of Kearny and nearby towns is the Ray mine and Hayden Smelter, both owned and operated by ASARCO.

It is bordered on the west by Newark, on the north by Kearny, and on the south and east by Harrison.

* 1892: Waverly and Passaic Railroad ( finished by the New York Bay Railroad ) from Waverly, New Jersey to Kearny, New Jersey

WNYC temporarily moved its offices to the studios at National Public Radio's New York bureau in midtown Manhattan, where it broadcast on its still operating AM signal transmitting from towers in Kearny, New Jersey and by a live Internet stream.

The following year, Kearny obtained a commission as a second lieutenant of cavalry, assigned to the 1st U. S. Dragoons, who were commanded by his uncle, Colonel Stephen W. Kearny, and whose adjutant general was Jefferson Davis.

His fearless character in battle earned him the nickname by his French comrades Kearny le Magnifique, or Kearny the Magnificent.

* Walter Kidde, B. E., 1897, founder of Walter Kidde Constructors ; oversaw the construction of Port Newark and Kearny, New Jersey's first traffic circle and the world's first cloverleaf interchange, the Pulaski Skyway ; served as New Jersey State Highway Commissioner ; founder of the Walter Kidde Company, maker of WWII safety equipment

Kearny was assigned to raise a troop of cavalry for the 1st U. S. Dragoons, Company F, in Terre Haute, Indiana.

It comprises the former Western Electric Kearny Works and Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, the shipyards of which operated from 1917 to 1949 and played a prominent role in both World War I and World War II.

It was the first U. S. linoleum manufacturer, but was soon followed by the American Nairn Linoleum Company, established by Sir Michael Nairn in 1887 ( later the Congoleum Nairn Company, and The Congoleum Corporation of America ), in Kearny, New Jersey.

Owned by the Tribune Company, KSWB maintains studios on Engineer Road in the city's Kearny Mesa section ( within a quarter-mile to the west of the studios of CBS affiliate KFMB-TV ).

The vessel was launched on 25 July 1941 by the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Kearny, New Jersey and sponsored by the Commander's daughter, Miss Gordon Ellyson.