Environmental Consequences of Nuclear War, Physical and Atmospheric Effects (SCOPE Series) (Volume 1)

A comprehensive, interdisciplinary look at current scientific knowledge of the possible environmental, ecological, agricultural, & human consequences of nuclear war. Reviewed are existing nuclear arsenals, war scenarios, & the immediate & subsequent effects of war. The authors assess the likely magnitude of changes in sunlight, temperature, precipitation, atmospheric chemistry, & more. The work also provides recent results of computer modeling of climate change due to nuclear war, & considers & extrapolates the experiences of Hiroshima & Nagasaki. Taken together, the volumes provide the most comprehensive & interdisciplinary appraisal of nuclear war's effects available to date.A. B. Pittock is the author of 'Environmental Consequences of Nuclear War, Physical and Atmospheric Effects (SCOPE Series) (Volume 1)', published 1990 under ISBN 9780471924692 and ISBN 0471924695.