New York. 25 cm. xxii, 499 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color). Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta. Idioma Inglés. Carl Sagan, Richard Turco. Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-418) and index. Online version:: Sagan, Carl, 1934-1996. Path where no man thought. 1st ed. Contents List of boxes -- List of figures -- Preface -- Prologue: "The mere threat of the end of the world" -- Ch. 1. Croesus and Cassandra -- Ch. 2. The idea of nuclear winter -- Ch. 3. Current scientific knowledge of nuclear winter -- Ch. 4. The witches' brew: poison gas, radioactive fallout, ultraviolet light -- Ch. 5. Extinction? -- Ch. 6. Risk -- Ch. 7. Tambora and Frankenstein: what it takes to generate nuclear power -- Ch. 8. Targeting -- Ch. 9. What does it take to prevent nuclear winter? -- Ch. 10. Deterring ourselves -- Ch. 12. Nuclear winter in nations minding their own business -- Ch. 13. Global policy impact of nuclear winter -- Ch. 14. Darkness at noon: six classes of nuclear winter -- Ch. 15. A furnace for your foe -- Ch. 16. The doomsday machine -- Ch. 17. Is infinity enough?: minimum sufficient deterrence (MSD) -- Ch. 18. What kinds of weapons?: strategic force structures -- Ch. 19. How do we get to minimum sufficiency?: some milestones -- Ch. 20. Sketch of a near-term strategic path for the United States -- Ch. 21. Other nuclear sites -- Ch. 22. Abolition -- Notes and references -- appendix A: Climate: the global energy machine -- Appendix B: Nuclear winter theory: early predictions compared with latest findings -- Appendix C: A short history of the TTAPS nuclear winter study -- Index .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 0394583078; 9780394583075; 0679727965; 97806797279
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