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The Long-term Biological Consequences of Nuclear War*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Norman Myers
Norman Myers
Affiliation:
Consultant in Environment and Development, Upper Meadow, Old Road, Headington, Oxford OX3 8SZ, England, UK
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Information
Environmental Conservation , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , Spring 1984 , pp. 79 - 80
Copyright
Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1984

References

† See ‘Nuclear Winter: Global Consequences of Multiple Nuclear Explosions’, by R.P. Turco, O.B. Toon, T.P. Ackerman, J.B. Pollack & Carl Sagan, Science, 222, pp. 1283–92, 1983Google Scholar, and ‘Long-term Biological Consequences of Nuclear War’, by Paul R. Ehrlich and 19 others [including the Author of the present comment], Science, 222, pp. 1293–300, 1983.Google Scholar

‡ In answer to a referee's questions Dr Myers replied (in lift. 21 December 1983), ‘the television hook-up was indeed live, with scientists sitting in a studio in Moscow. Whether or not it was transmitted to the general viewing public in the Soviet Union, I do not know.’ Yet we can guess that it may well have been, with Academician Evgueni Chazov still the Kremlin doctor, as it was he who earlier ‘spelt out the horrors of nuclear war to audiences of 100 million on Soviet television’—see our comment in Environmental Conservation, 8(4), pp. 261–2, 1981.—Ed.