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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

A field-tested guide to surviving a nuclear attack, written by a revered civil defense expert. This edition of Cresson H. Kearny's iconic Nuclear War Survival Skills (originally published in 1979), updated by Kearny himself in 1987 and again in 2001, offers expert advice for ensuring your family's safety should the worst come to pass. Chock-full of practical instructions and preventative measures, Nuclear War Survival Skills is based on years of meticulous scientific research conducted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Featuring a new introduction by ex-Navy SEAL Don Mann, this book also includes: instructions for six different fallout shelters, myths and facts about the dangers of nuclear weapons, tips for maintaining an adequate food and water supply, a foreword by "the father of the hydrogen bomb," physicist Dr. Edward Teller, and an "About the Author" note by Eugene P. Wigner, physicist and Nobel Laureate. Written at a time when global tensions were at their peak, Nuclear War Survival Skills remains relevant in the dangerous age in which we now live

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; 1 Man as a war-making animal; 2 The underlying fallacy in the nuclear debate; 3 Our received idea of war; 4 War: an inherently cumulative process; 5 War and power; 6 The unlearnt lessons of the nuclear age; 7 War Studies, Peace Studies and Survival Studies; INDEX.