Environmental Consequences of Nuclear War
Author: Mark A. Harwell
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 574
ISBN-13: 9780471908982
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mark A. Harwell
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 574
ISBN-13: 9780471908982
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: M.A. Harwell
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1461252881
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1982, three conservationists in the United States discussed a growing concern they shared about the long-term biological consequences of nuclear war; they wondered what such a war would do to the air, the water, the soils 1 the natural systems upon which all life depends. I was one of those three; the others were executives of two philanthropic foundations, Robert L. Allen of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation and the late Robert W. Scrivner of the Rockefeller Family Fund. Together we began trying to! find out what the scientific community was doing about the problem and what steps could be taken to alert the environmental movement to the need to address the subject. We knew that a large-scale nuclear war might kill from 300 million to a billion people outright and that another billion could suffer serious injuries requiring immediate medical attention, care that would be largely unavailable. But what kind of world wouldisurvivors face? Would the long-term consequences prove to humanity and survival of all species than the to be even more serious immediate effects? We found that comparatively little scientific research had been done about the envifonmental consequences of a nuclear war of the magni tude that toda,y's huge arsenal could unleash . .
Author: Lydia Dotto
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 1986-03-26
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9780471998365
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A distillation of the report by the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE), an international effort by over 200 scientisits. Written for a lay audience, it presents the thrust of the original arguments of the two-volume study without the scientific minutiae. Explores the climatic and atmospheric changes induced, radiation and fallout, and the putative biological consequences.
Author: International Council of Scientific Unions. Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment
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Published: 1985
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Julius London
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-07-11
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 1000301060
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book assesses the current available information concerning the major scientific problems related to environmental consequences of a possible nuclear war. The contributors address a broad range of topics, among them the effects of blast, heat, and local radioactive fallout; the likely dispersal patterns and residence times of radioactive debris in the troposphere and stratosphere; the probable long-term effects on both the local and global biosphere and radiological consequences for humans; the effect on the global environment of widespread fires in urban and industrialized regions; and the likely significant decrease of stratospheric ozone with a resulting long-term increase in harmful UV radiation received at the ground. The authors point to problem areas where current information is inadequate or completely lacking and discuss the role of the scientist in developing such information as a contribution to the elimination of the nuclear war threat.
Author: Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering and Technology. Committee on Interagency Radiation Research and Policy Coordination. United States. Office of Science and Technology Policy
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Published: 1988
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