Unprecedented smoke from B.C.’s wildfires in 2017 is helping scientists model the potential impacts of nuclear war on the Earth’s climate, says a study from Rutgers University. The enormous plume of smoke formed the largest cloud of its kind ever observed, which circled the Northe...
these contaminants had a direct impact on water, groundwater, soil, and air and led to an accumulation of these contaminants over time. The consequences are clearly evident today in the quality of water and sediment of the Tigris River [5,9], especially in direct comparison with pre-war ...
A Citizen's Guide to Terrorism Preparedness and Response: Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclearby the American Council on Science and Health. Nuclear War: Civil Defense Preparedness Nuclear War Survival Skillsby Cresson Kearny. Getting Prepared for an Electromagnetic Pulse Attack or Severe Sol...
In the 21st century, humans are ecosystem engineers on a planetwide scale, threatening the life-sustaining capacity of all of Earth’s environmental “spheres”: People themselves may be thought of as a sphere within the greater biosphere: the ethnosphere, or the sum total of all thoughts and...
However, there are major uncertainties about the response of PHOs to a nuclear burst, and the most appropriate ways to use nuclear munitions for hazard mitigation.CATHERINE S. PLESKOROBERT P. WEAVERPAUL A. BRADLEYWALTER F. HUEBNERInternational Seminar on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies...
The understanding of EMPs and their effects has been shaped by historical concerns, particularly during the Cold War when the threat of a nuclear EMP attack was a strategic consideration. The likelihood of an EMP event varies based on its origin. Natural EMP incidents, like those from ...
Deep Impact, unlike Testament (1983), which honestly and effectively explored the dramatic reality of a nuclear war without ever showing the war, is not a drama. Not really. Like all disaster movies dating to the beginning of the cinema, Deep Impact is about the vicarious thrill of watching...
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Why geologists insist that Xixcalub was a catastrophe but there hadn’t been one since makes little sense.It is not as if they haven’t seen a comet cause monumental fireballs on a planet before – in the time of man. In the time of video, even. Was there an impact at the YD ons...
Operation: Fatal Impact is the eleventh Soviet Act Two campaign mission. Comrade, the trail of Yuri's psychic soldiers goes cold at the site of containers on his moon base. Early intel suggests a massacre took place there, but that's all we know. Whateve