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The Ecological Dimension of Nuclear War*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Arthur H. Westing
Arthur H. Westing
Affiliation:
International Peace Research Institute, Fuglehauggata 11, N-0260 Oslo 2, Norway(PR10); also Adjunct Professor of Ecology, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA.
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This paper examines the widespread environmental effects, sensu stricto, that would result from a large-scale nuclear war and the resultant ecological impacts. Singled out for analysis are the effects of wildfires, radioactive fallout, enhanced ultraviolet radiation, loss of atmospheric oxygen, gain in atmospheric carbon dioxide, and reductions in sunlight and temperature; also of combinations and ramifications of these adverse phenomena.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , Winter 1987 , pp. 295 - 306
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1987

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