Author: Nicole RuderPublisher:
ISBN: 9780615496603
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
The PGA Handbook
Author: Nicole RuderPublisher:
ISBN: 9780615496603
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
UNDOC, Current Index
Author: Official Records of the ... Session of the General Assembly
Author: Check List of Documents
Author: United Nations. General AssemblyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5-13 September 1994
Author: United NationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Official Records
Author: Document Drafting Handbook
Author: Gladys Q. RameyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
UNDEX Series "C": General Assembly
Author: Milton MittelmanPublisher: White Plains, N.Y. : Unifo Publishers, c1979-c1980.
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Programme Budget Implications of the Draft Resolution Contained in Document A/39/L.10/Rev. 1
Author: UN. Secretary-GeneralA 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.