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Nuclear Winter: The implications for civil defense

Description: ''Nuclear Winter'' is the term given to hypothesized cooling in the northern hemisphere following a nuclear war due to injection of smoke from burning cities into the atmosphere. The voluminous literature on this subject produced since the original paper in 1983 by Turco, Toon, Ackerman, Pollack, and Sagen (TTAPS) has been reviewed. The widespread use of 3-dimensional global circulation models have resulted in reduced estimates of cooling; 15 to 25/sup 0/C for a summer war and a few degrees for… more
Date: January 1, 1987
Creator: Chester, C. V.; Perry, A. M. & Hobbs, B. F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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