The Climatic, Biological, and Strategic Effects of Nuclear War: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research, and Environment of the Committee on Science and Technology, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, September 12, 1984 |
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Academy of Sciences airbursts altitudes APR JUL OCT areas arsenals atmos atmosphere attack average baseline biological burning calculations Carl Sagan changes cities climate model climatic catastrophe climatic effects consequences of nuclear cooling countervalue Crutzen deterrence detonation dose dust and smoke Earth ecosystems Edward Teller effects of nuclear extinction factor fallout fireball flux force global heat HECHT human impact injected issue kiloton land latitudes long-term major megatons military missile National Northern Hemisphere nuclear exchange nuclear explosions nuclear war Nuclear Warfare nuclear weapons nuclear winter effect O. B. Toon ocean OCT JAN APR optical depth percent photosynthesis planning plants possible Postol predicted question R. P. Turco radiation radioactive reduced scenarios SCHEUER SCHNEIDER scientific scientists smoke and dust smoke emission smoke particles solar soot Soviet Union species strategic stratosphere sunlight surface targets Teller temperature threshold tion tropical troposphere TTAPS uncertainties UV-B volcanic warheads yield