Education about nuclear war.

Environmental consequences of nuclear war

groups made valuable contributions to elaborating the consequences of nuclear warfare.1 Paul Crutzen and John Birks proposed that massive fires and smoke emissions in the lower atmosphere after a global nuclear exchange would create severe short-term environmental aftereffects. Extending their work, two of us (Toon and Turco) and colleagues discovered “nuclear winter,” which posited that worldw...

Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War

Accidental nuclear war--a post-cold war assessment.

BACKGROUND In the 1980s, many medical organizations identified the prevention of nuclear war as one of the medical profession's most important goals. An assessment of the current danger is warranted given the radically changed context of the post-Cold War era. METHODS We reviewed the recent literature on the status of nuclear arsenals and the risk of nuclear war. We then estimated the likely ...

lesson about a war

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Uncertainty about Relative Power and War

The traditional and formal literatures in international relations have placed uncertainty at the center of their explanations for war. The formal literature has largely focused on uncertainty regarding the costs of war while the traditional literature focuses on uncertainty about relative power. In this paper we analyze a class of formal models of conflict where players choose between fighting ...