Consequences of regional-scale nuclear conflicts

Science

Volumn 315, Issue 5816, 2007, Pages 1224-1225

  Toon, Owen B ^a   Robock, Alan ^b   Turco, Richard P ^c   Bardeen, Charles ^a   Oman, Luke ^b,d   Stenchikov, Georgiy L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR WEAPON;

ATOMIC BOMB; ATOMIC WARFARE; CLIMATE; DEATH; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MORTALITY; SMOKE; STATISTICS;

AGRICULTURE; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR WARFARE; SMOKE;

EID: 33847621126     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1137747     Document Type: Review

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14. A.R., G.L.S., and L.O. were supported by NSF grants ATM-0313592 and ATM-0351280.