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Nuclear Winter
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During the last few decades, humans have developed and implemented the technology capable of causing self-destruction on a totally unprecedented global scale. The initial development and the dramatic use of nuclear weapons at the end of World War II startled the world into a new awareness: that a single weapon delivered by a single vehicle could instantaneously destroy most of the population and the physical structure of an urban area. The horror of such massive casualties was greatly enhanced by the terror of radiation as the unseen killer, striking down its victims not only quickly but also over subsequent weeks, years, and even across generations.

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Harwell, M.A. (1984). Introduction. In: Nuclear Winter. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5288-7_1

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