Author: United Nations. General Assembly. Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary QuestionsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Reports on the Programme Budget for the Biennium ...
Author: United Nations. General Assembly. Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary QuestionsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Official Records
Author: Official Records of the ... Session of the General Assembly
Author: A Nuclear Winter's Tale
Author: Lawrence BadashPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262257998
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
The rise and fall of the concept of nuclear winter, played out in research activity, public relations, and Reagan-era politics. The nuclear winter phenomenon burst upon the public's consciousness in 1983. Added to the horror of a nuclear war's immediate effects was the fear that the smoke from fires ignited by the explosions would block the sun, creating an extended “winter” that might kill more people worldwide than the initial nuclear strikes. In A Nuclear Winter's Tale, Lawrence Badash maps the rise and fall of the science of nuclear winter, examining research activity, the popularization of the concept, and the Reagan-era politics that combined to influence policy and public opinion. Badash traces the several sciences (including studies of volcanic eruptions, ozone depletion, and dinosaur extinction) that merged to allow computer modeling of nuclear winter and its development as a scientific specialty. He places this in the political context of the Reagan years, discussing congressional interest, media attention, the administration's plans for a research program, and the Defense Department's claims that the arms buildup underway would prevent nuclear war, and thus nuclear winter. A Nuclear Winter's Tale tells an important story but also provides a useful illustration of the complex relationship between science and society. It examines the behavior of scientists in the public arena and in the scientific community, and raises questions about the problems faced by scientific Cassandras, the implications when scientists go public with worst-case scenarios, and the timing of government reaction to startling scientific findings.
UNDOC, Current Index
Author: The PGA Handbook
Author: Nicole RuderPublisher:
ISBN: 9780615496603
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Programme Budget Implications of Draft Resolutions A/45/L.16 and L.17
Author: UN. General Assembly (45th sess. : 1990-1991). 5th CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : ar
Pages : 2
Book Description
UNDOC
Author: Yearbook of the United Nations, Volume 46 (1992)
Author: United NationsPublisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN: 9004636781
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1294
Book Description
Fully indexed, the 1992 edition of the Yearbook is the single most current, comprehensive and authoritative reference publication about the work of the United Nations, other international organizations and related bodies. The book is designed not just for use by diplomats, officials and scholars but also by other researchers, writers, journalists, teachers and students. The year 1992 was a remarkably eventful one for the United Nations and in the conduct of international relations. This volume of the Yearbook details the activities of the United Nations, its many organs, agencies and programmes, working together to rekindle a new form of multilateral cooperation for a better world. It records the diverse and globe-encompassing activities of the United Nations and its enduring efforts to deal with the world's pressing concerns, particularly matters of international peace and security, disarmament, human rights, the settlement of regional conflicts, economic and social development, the preservation of the environment, control of drugs and narcotic substance abuse, crime prevention, adequate shelter, youth and the ageing and humanitarian assistance for refugees as well as disaster relief. The Yearbooks for the years 1988, 1989 and 1990 are expected to be published within the next two years.
Index to Proceedings of the General Assembly
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
Includes special sessions.