Planet Earth in Jeopardy: Environmental Consequences of Nuclear WarWiley, 1986 M03 26 - 134 páginas A distillation of the report by the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE), an international effort by over 200 scientisits. Written for a lay audience, it presents the thrust of the original arguments of the two-volume study without the scientific minutiae. Explores the climatic and atmospheric changes induced, radiation and fallout, and the putative biological consequences. |
Contenido
Chapter | 1 |
The Nuclear Exchange | 15 |
Fire Blast and Other Immediate Effects | 21 |
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acute phase aftermath agricultural production agricultural systems amounts of smoke animals areas biological cause Chapter chronic phase climatic changes climatic disturbances climatic effects clouds coastal cold cooling crops damage devastating direct effects disruptions Earth's surface ecosys ecosystems electromagnetic pulse episodes estimated facilities factors fireball fires forests fraction freezing fuel global fallout ground bursts growing season temperatures Hiroshima impact important increased injected kilometers large-scale nuclear light levels lofted loss major nuclear megatons mid-latitudes million tonne Nagasaki natural ecosystems normal Northern Hemisphere nuclear explosions nuclear weapons nuclear-ignited occur ocean optical depth ozone ozone depletion periods photosynthesis phytoplankton plants possible post-war climatic potential radiation doses radioactivity rainfall reduced reductions in precipitation regions result rice scenario simulations smoke particles soil solar energy soot Southern species square kilometers stratosphere stresses studies subsidies summer sunlight survive targets temperature reductions tropical troposphere uncertainties upper atmosphere UV-B vulnerable winter winter war yields