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Title: Nuclear winter. Joint Hearing before the Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research and Environment of the Committee on Science and Technology and the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, US House of Representatives, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session, March 14, 1985

Abstract

Dr. Carl Sagan of Cornell University, Richard N. Perle of the Defense Department (DOD), and two panels of scientists and political scientists testified on the implications of a nuclear winter resulting from the use of nuclear weapons. Concern that the concept of a nuclear winter was accepted by the DOD several decades into the nuclear age raised questions over other effects as yet unknown and about the future of the Star Wars defense concept. The focus of the hearing was on a DOD report, The Potential Effects of Nuclear War on the Climate, along with concern that DOD only requested $2.5 million dollars for research on the nuclear winter out of its nearly $40 billion budget. The witnesses presented evidence collected to date, outlined further research projects, and presented the implications of environmental disaster for strategic planning. Perle defended DOD's deterrence policies and accused the scientists of naivete in their political proposals. An appendix with material for the record follows the testimony.

Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
6433401
Resource Type:
Book
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
45 MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, WEAPONRY, AND NATIONAL DEFENSE; 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; GLOBAL FALLOUT; NUCLEAR WINTER; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS; INFORMATION NEEDS; AEROSOLS; ARMS CONTROL; CLIMATES; HEARINGS; NUCLEAR DETERRENCE; PARTICULATES; US DOD; COLLOIDS; DISPERSIONS; DOCUMENT TYPES; FALLOUT; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; PARTICLES; SOLS; US ORGANIZATIONS; WEAPONS; 450202* - Explosions & Explosives- Nuclear- Weaponry- (-1989); 290600 - Energy Planning & Policy- Nuclear Energy

Citation Formats

. Nuclear winter. Joint Hearing before the Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research and Environment of the Committee on Science and Technology and the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, US House of Representatives, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session, March 14, 1985. United States: N. p., 1985. Web.
. Nuclear winter. Joint Hearing before the Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research and Environment of the Committee on Science and Technology and the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, US House of Representatives, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session, March 14, 1985. United States.
. 1985. "Nuclear winter. Joint Hearing before the Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research and Environment of the Committee on Science and Technology and the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, US House of Representatives, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session, March 14, 1985". United States.
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title = {Nuclear winter. Joint Hearing before the Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research and Environment of the Committee on Science and Technology and the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, US House of Representatives, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session, March 14, 1985},
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abstractNote = {Dr. Carl Sagan of Cornell University, Richard N. Perle of the Defense Department (DOD), and two panels of scientists and political scientists testified on the implications of a nuclear winter resulting from the use of nuclear weapons. Concern that the concept of a nuclear winter was accepted by the DOD several decades into the nuclear age raised questions over other effects as yet unknown and about the future of the Star Wars defense concept. The focus of the hearing was on a DOD report, The Potential Effects of Nuclear War on the Climate, along with concern that DOD only requested $2.5 million dollars for research on the nuclear winter out of its nearly $40 billion budget. The witnesses presented evidence collected to date, outlined further research projects, and presented the implications of environmental disaster for strategic planning. Perle defended DOD's deterrence policies and accused the scientists of naivete in their political proposals. An appendix with material for the record follows the testimony.},
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year = {Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1985},
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