SCOPE 59

NUCLEAR TEST EXPLOSIONS

Environmental and Human Impacts

Edited by

Sir Frederick Warner - University of Essex, United Kingdom

Rene J.C. Kirchmann - University of Liege, Belgium

Published on behalf of the

Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE)

OF THE

INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC UNIONS (ICSU)

by

John Wiley & Sons

Chichester, New York, Weinhgeim, Brisbane, Singapore, Toronto

2000

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Title Pages

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

1 - Synthesis - Sir Frederick Warner

2 - Introduction - R.J.C. Kirchmann, L. Appleby and C.S. Shapiro

3 - Nuclear Weapons Test Programmes of the Different Countries -
B.B. Bennett, L.E. de Geer and A. Doury

4 - Nuclear Explosions and their Environmental Contamination -
Yu. A. Izrael, E.D. Stukin, V.N. Petrov, L. Anspaugh, A. Doury, R.J.C. Kirchmann
and E. van der Stricht

5 - Pathways for Internal and External Exposure - P.J. Coughtrey, R.J.C. Kirchmann,
F. Harris and S.L. Simon

6 - Estimation of Doses - A. Bouville, L. Anspaugh, M.I. Balonov, K.I. Gordeev,
V.I. Kiselev, V.M. Loborev, N.K. Luckyanov, E. Pauli, W.L. Robison, M. Savkin,
V.V. Sudakov and S. Zelentsov

7 - Health Effects - W. Burkart, A.M. Kellerer, S. Bauer, J.R. Harrison, C. Land,
Y.N. Shoikhet, V.I. Kiselev, S.L. Simon, T. Tsukatani and F. de Vathaire

8 - Fallout Models -- Past, Present and Future - R.D. Small

Appendix: Types and List of Tests

Glossary, Radiation Units, Metric Multiples and Sub-multiples

Index