Life After Nuclear War: The Economic and Social Impacts of Nuclear Attacks on the United States
Virginia J. Mason (Cover Design) Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1982. Presumed First Paperback Edition, Second printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xxvii, [3], 422, [8] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Foreword by Sen. William Proxmire. Dr. Katz had worked with the Joint Committee on Defense Production of the U. S. Congress had contributed to its report entitled "Economic and Social Consequences of Nuclear Attacks on the U.S." The title of this book is not without irony, for the author makes clear that the living would have reason to envy the dead in a post-nuclear war situation. Currently fashionable scenarios for limited nuclear war become quickly appalling as one sifts through the technical details on the horrendous consequences of even a "limited attack" on the United States. As in the case of the recently published Japanese study Hiroshima and Nagasaki (reviewed in Foreign Affairs, Fall 1981, p. 201), the author assesses the economic, social and psychological damage of nuclear devastation as well as the military consequences. He is pessimistic about the speed and depth of post-attack recovery. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Arms Control, Blast Effects, Fallout, Radiation Poisoning, Evacuation, Emergency Response, Soviet Union, Nuclear Weapons, Civil Defense, Energy Supply, Limited Nuclear War, Radiation Effects, Thermal Effects
ISBN: 0884109070
[Book #73459]
Price: $37.50