Microelectronics in War

Barnaby, Frank

doi:10.1016/b978-0-08-028955-7.50013-5

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“…An estimated 30 percent of Northern Hemisphere mid-latitude land areas would receive a dose -500 R immediately after the explosions. This dose, from external gamma-emitters in radioactive fallout, would be comparable to or more than the acute mean lethal dose (LD50) for healthy adults (8). Over the next few days and weeks, fallout would contribute an additional external dose of -100 R over 50 percent of northern mid-latitudes.…”

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Long-Term Biological Consequences of Nuclear War

Ehrlich

Harte

Harwell

et al. 1983

Science

163

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Subfreezing temperatures, low light levels, and high doses of ionizing and ultraviolet radiation extending for many months after a large-scale nuclear war could destroy the biological support systems of civilization, at least in the Northern Hemisphere. Productivity in natural and agricultural ecosystems could be severely restricted for a year or more. Postwar survivors would face starvation as well as freezing conditions in the dark and be exposed to near-lethal doses of radiation. If, as now seems possible, the Southern Hemisphere were affected also, global disruption of the biosphere could ensue. In any event, there would be severe consequences, even in the areas not affected directly, because of the interdependence of the world economy. In either case the extinction of a large fraction of the Earth's animals, plants, and microorganisms seems possible. The population size of Homo sapiens conceivably could be reduced to prehistoric levels or below, and extinction of the human species itself cannot be excluded.

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Section: Dementioning

confidence: 98%

Long-Term Biological Consequences of Nuclear War

Ehrlich

Harte

Harwell

et al. 1983

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163

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“…Again, Barnaby asserts that "Military technological revolutions follow one another with such bewildering rapidity that no one person can hope to keep abreast of all the developments., 28 And, it may be Just as certain that neither can one nation, In addition, the automated battlefield of the future may be filled with sensors sensitive to light, sound, magnetic fields, pressure and Infrared radiation, and capable of transmitting information about enemy forces over long distancem. It is believed that the weapons used on the automated battlefield of the future will be guided weapons, primarily surface-to-surface missiles atd extremely lethal guided conventional bovlbs fitted with automatic homing devices so that they can be.…”

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confidence: 99%