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In this reconsideration of his controversial study Thinking about the Unthinkable (1962), Kahn addresses deterrence concepts and specific arms control issues which are likely to remain at the forefront of the nuclear debate. Taking into account the political, technical and moral developments of the past 20 years, he argues that since nuclear weapons exist and cannot be disinvented, it is crucial to maintain a militarily strong United States, while...

Grew out of a symposium in Los Angeles of the Scientific Program of the 1983 annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association.

The first part of this interdisciplinary study of the consequences of nuclear war provides an overview of its physical and environmental effects: urban fires, nuclear winter, nuclear famine, and toxic environments. Part II considers the consequences from the standpoint of death, injuries, and the health of survivors; and describes the effects of radiation exposure, food shortages and malnutrition on the prospects of survival, and psychological consequences....

A novel about the survivors of an atomic war, who face an inevitable end as radiation poisoning moves toward Australia from the North.

A few years ago Arthur Kopit was commissioned by a wealthy industrialist to write a play about the nuclear peril. This funny play is the result. It is about a playwright who sees himself as a Sam Spade like detective who is commissioned by a mysterious billionaire to write a play about the Impending Doom. The writer has two mysteries to solve: the truth behind the nuclear arms build up and the reason the eccentric croesus Philip Stone believes he...