• Front Matter R1-R20

• Understanding and Preventing Nuclear War: The Expanding Role of the Scientific Community 1-12

• Part I: Nuclear War with Modern Weapons: Physical Effects and Environmental Consequences 13-14

• 1 Possible Fatalities from Superfires Following Nuclear Attacks in or near Urban Areas 15-72

• 2 A Review of the Physics of Large Urban Fires 73-95

• 3 Recent Assessments of the Environmental Consequences of Nuclear War 96-116

• 4 Nuclear Famine: The Indirect Effects of Nuclear War 117-135

• 5 Nuclear Winter: The State of the Science 136-140

• 6 Atmospheric Perturbations of Large-Scale Nuclear War 141-154

• 7 Possible Toxic Environments Following a Nuclear War 155-166

• 8 Radioactive Fallout 167-204

• Part II: Health Consequences of Nuclear War 205-206

• 9 Casualties Due to the Blast, Heat, and Radioactive Fallout from Various Hypothetical Nuclear Attacks on the United States 207-232

• 10 Acute Radiation Mortality in a Nuclear War 233-250

• 11 Burn and Blast Casualties: Triage in Nuclear War 251-283

• 12 Food and Nutrition in the Aftermath of Nuclear War 284-289

• 13 Psychological Consequences of Disaster: Analogies for the Nuclear Case 290-316

• 14 The Immunological Impact of Nuclear Warfare 317-328

• 15 Expected Incidence of Cancer Following Nuclear War 329-336

• 16 Genetic Consequences of Nuclear War 337-346

• Part III: Medical Resource Needs and Availability Following Nuclear War 347-348

• 17 Medical Supply and Demand in a Post-Nuclear-War World 349-380

• 18 The Consequences of Nuclear War: An Economic and Social Perspective 381-410

• Part IV: Images and Risks of Nuclear War: Psychosocial Perspectives 411-412

• 19 Children's and Adolescents' Perceptions of the Threat of Nuclear War: Implications of Recent Studies 413-434

• 20 Scandinavian Youth View the Future: A Preliminary Report of a Large Questionnaire Survey 435-443

• 21 Adult Beliefs, Feelings, and Actions Regarding Nuclear War: Evidence from Surveys and Experiments 444-466

• 22 Hope and the Denial of Stress in the Nuclear Age 467-473

• 23 The Nuclear Arms Race and the Psychology of Power 474-484

• 24 Managerial Demands of Modern Weapons Systems 485-489

• 25 Sources of Human Instability in the Handling of Nuclear Weapons 490-528

• 26 The Impact of Crisis-Induced Stress on Decision Making 529-552

• Part V: Long-Term Consequences of and Prospects for Recovery from Nuclear War: Two Views 553-554

• 27 View I 555-565

• 28 View II 566-580

• Concluding Remarks 581-582

• Summary and Perspective: With Some Observations on Informed Consent 583-588

• Glossary 589-598

• Biographies of Contributors 599-606

• Index 607-620

Solomon, Fred, Marston, Robert Q., Thomas, Lewis " 28 View II ." The Medical Implications of Nuclear War . Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1986 .

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