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Nuclear Winter

The Human and Environmental Consequences of Nuclear War

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  • © 1984

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Authors:
  1. Mark A. Harwell

    1. Ecosystems Research Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Introduction

    • Mark A. Harwell
    Pages 1-8

  3. Scenario Development

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    Pages 9-15

  4. Initial Conditions

    • Mark A. Harwell
    Pages 17-83

  5. Intermediate and Long-Term Consequences

    • Mark A. Harwell
    Pages 85-147

  6. Recovery Processes

    • Mark A. Harwell
    Pages 149-152

  7. Summary of Consequences

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    Pages 153-165

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 167-179
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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 . .

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  • Ecosystems Research Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

    Mark A. Harwell

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