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PAPERBACK list:$112.75 Web:$101.48 add to cart PDF BOOK your price: $86.50 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free Resources Display this book on your site! Related Titles Going the Distance? The Safe Transport of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste in the United States Monitoring Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear-Explosive Materials: An Assessment of Methods and Capabilities Other Related Titles The Medical Implications of Nuclear War (1986) Institute of Medicine (IOM) Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Page 205   E-mail  Facebook  Digg  Stumble  Twitter More Page 205 Front Matter (R1-R20) Understanding and Preventing Nuclear War: The Expanding Role of the Scientific Community (1-12) Part I: Nuclear War with Modern Weapons: Physical Effects and Environmental Consequences (13-14) 1 Possible Fatalities from Superfires Following Nuclear Attacks in or near Urban Areas (15-72) 2 A Review of the Physics of Large Urban Fires (73-95) 3 Recent Assessments of the Environmental Consequences of Nuclear War (96-116) 4 Nuclear Famine: The Indirect Effects of Nuclear War (117-135) 5 Nuclear Winter: The State of the Science (136-140) 6 Atmospheric Perturbations of Large-Scale Nuclear War (141-154) 7 Possible Toxic Environments Following a Nuclear War (155-166) 8 Radioactive Fallout (167-204) Part II: Health Consequences of Nuclear War (205-206) 9 Casualties Due to the Blast, Heat, and Radioactive Fallout from Various Hypothetical Nuclear Attacks on the United States (207-232) 10 Acute Radiation Mortality in a Nuclear War (233-250) 11 Burn and Blast Casualties: Triage in Nuclear War (251-283) 12 Food and Nutrition in the Aftermath of Nuclear War (284-289) 13 Psychological Consequences of Disaster: Analogies for the Nuclear Case (290-316) 14 The Immunological Impact of Nuclear Warfare (317-328) 15 Expected Incidence of Cancer Following Nuclear War (329-336) 16 Genetic Consequences of Nuclear War (337-346) Part III: Medical Resource Needs and Availability Following Nuclear War (347-348) 17 Medical Supply and Demand in a Post-Nuclear-War World (349-380) 18 The Consequences of Nuclear War: An Economic and Social Perspective (381-410) Part IV: Images and Risks of Nuclear War: Psychosocial Perspectives (411-412) 19 Children's and Adolescents' Perceptions of the Threat of Nuclear War: Implications of Recent Studies (413-434) 20 Scandinavian Youth View the Future: A Preliminary Report of a Large Questionnaire Survey (435-443) 21 Adult Beliefs, Feelings, and Actions Regarding Nuclear War: Evidence from Surveys and Experiments (444-466) 22 Hope and the Denial of Stress in the Nuclear Age (467-473) 23 The Nuclear Arms Race and the Psychology of Power (474-484) 24 Managerial Demands of Modern Weapons Systems (485-489) 25 Sources of Human Instability in the Handling of Nuclear Weapons (490-528) 26 The Impact of Crisis-Induced Stress on Decision Making (529-552) Part V: Long-Term Consequences of and Prospects for Recovery from Nuclear War: Two Views (553-554) 27 View I (555-565) 28 View II (566-580) Concluding Remarks (581-582) Summary and Perspective: With Some Observations on Informed Consent (583-588) Glossary (589-598) Biographies of Contributors (599-606) Index (607-620)

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