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The Medical Implications of Nuclear War -- Copyright -- Contents -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- UNDERSTANDING AND PREVENTING NUCLEAR WAR: THE EXPANDING ROLE OF THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY -- Bibliography Some Recent Books Published By Scientific Organizations Concerned With Nuclear War -- PART I NUCLEAR WAR WITH MODEM WEAPONS: PHYSICAL EFFECTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES -- Possible Fatalities from Superfires Following Nuclear Attacks in or Near Urban Areas -- INTRODUCTION -- INCENDIARY EFFECTS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS -- SUPERFIRES AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTS -- ESTIMATES OF NOXIOUS GAS CONCENTRATIONS WITHIN THE MASS FIRE REGION -- COMBINED TOXIC EFFECTS OF FIRE GASES AND ELEVATED TEMPERATURES -- MASS FIRE EXPERIENCES OF WORLD WAR II -- MODEL FOR ESTIMATING FATALITIES FROM SUPERFIRES -- FATALITY POTENTIAL OF SUPERFIRES -- COMPARISON OF OTHER TARGET SETS WITH THE REFERENCE CASE -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- A Review of the Physics of Large Urban Fires -- INTRODUCTION -- HISTORY OF URBAN FIRES -- CHARACTERISTICS OF LARGE-SCALE URBAN FIRES -- MODELING LARGE-FIRE ENVIRONMENTS -- SUMMARY -- References -- Recent Assessments of the Environmental Consequences of Nuclear War -- NEW FINDINGS -- POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTION OF PLASTICS TO NUCLEAR WINTER -- References -- APPENDIX -- Scope/Enuwar Executive Summary -- Executive Summary -- 1. DIRECT EFFECTS OF NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS -- 2. STRATEGIES AND SCENARIOS FOR A NUCLEAR WAR -- 3. THE EXTENT OF FIRES AND GENERATION OF SMOKE -- 4. THE EVOLUTION AND RADIATIVE EFFECTS OF THE SMOKE -- 5. SMOKE-INDUCED ATMOSPHERIC PERTURBATIONS -- 6. ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY IN A POST-NUCLEAR-WAR ENVIRONMENT -- 7. RADIOLOGICAL DOSE -- 8. TASKS FOR THE FUTURE -- Nuclear Famine: The Indirect Effects of Nuclear War -- INTRODUCTION -- ECOSYSTEM VULNERABILITIES -- AGRICULTURAL VULNERABILITIES -- VULNERABILITY TO DISRUPTIONS IN FOOD AVAILABILITY -- CONCLUSION.

Nuclear strategy and deterrence in their "golden age"--A nostalgically defined period sometime in the mid-1950s to mid-1960s - promised to harness and control the nuclear Moloch; hopes were high that the civilian strategists flooding into Washington would succeed in designing a new science of war that would safeguard national security, provide a stable international environment, and develop a rational decision-making process for the management of national interests in a hostile nuclear world. Three decades later, it is a commonplace that the erstwhile promises and pretensions of the nuclear "w