Synopsis
A comprehensive, interdisciplinary look at current scientific knowledge of the possible environmental, ecological, agricultural, and human consequences of nuclear war. Reviwed are existing nuclear arsenals, war scenarios, and the immediate and subsequent effects of war. The authors assess the likely magnitude of changes in sunlight, temperature, precipitation, atmospheric chemistry, and more. The work also provides recent results of computer modeling of climate change due to nuclear war, and considers and extrapolates the experiences of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Taken together, the volumes provide the most comprehensive and interdisciplinary appraisal of nuclear war's effects available to date.
From the Publisher
A comprehensive, interdisciplinary look at current scientific knowledge of the possible environmental, ecological, agricultural, and human consequences of nuclear war. Reviwed are existing nuclear arsenals, war scenarios, and the immediate and subsequent effects of war. The authors assess the likely magnitude of changes in sunlight, temperature, precipitation, atmospheric chemistry, and more. The work also provides recent results of computer modeling of climate change due to nuclear war, and considers and extrapolates the experiences of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Taken together, the volumes provide the most comprehensive and interdisciplinary appraisal of nuclear war's effects available to date.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.