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Condizione: very_good.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condizione: good. Pages are clean with normal wear. May have limited markings & or highlighting within pages & or cover. May have some wear & creases on the cover. The spine may also have minor wear. May not include CD DVD, access code or any other supplemental materials.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair +. Blue cloth map endpapers depicting naval locations worldwide. Oblong format. New and Enlarged Edition--recent developments, launchings, war losses included in 12 pages of text and new Foreword inserted at front of text from previous edition. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and drawings. Light-to-moderate rubbing to cover extremities, with most wear to lower front cover corner. Clean and tight in a moderately-to-heavily edgeworn and very lightly soiled dust jacket. Irregular 2" closed tear accompanied by creasing and smaller tears at lower front panel of jacket. Upper edge of front jacket panel creased and with a 1" closed tear. Small chip and 1" closed tear at upper rear panel.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Cover is in good condition, save for corner bumping and rubbing. Text is largely tight in binding, though slightly tender and stands askew. Text is clean and free of blemishes throughout. No other markings or indications of note. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" Tall.

Wraps. Condizione: Very good. Reprint of article. 1326-1331, [2] pages. Table. References. The Future of Life Institute states that "The most devastating military threat arguably comes from a nuclear war started not intentionally but by accident or miscalculation. Accidental nuclear war has almost happened many times already, and with 15,000 nuclear weapons worldwide - thousands on hair-trigger alert and ready to launch at a moment's notice - an accident is bound to occur eventually.Many nuclear experts are concerned about a war between India and Pakistan, and if one of them were to accidentally start a nuclear war, the resulting nuclear winter could kill 1 billion people worldwide. Moreover, there are signs of the Cold War restarting. The U.S. and Russia are both upgrading their arsenals, which means new weapons and new ways for something in the system to go wrong. The risk of accidental nuclear war is only growing, and barring major initiatives for risk reduction, it's merely a matter of time until our luck runs out." The team of medical professionals reviewed the recent literature on the status of nuclear arsenals and the risk of nuclear war. They then estimated the likely medical effects of a scenario identified by leading experts as posing a serious danger; an accidental launch of nuclear weapons. They assessed possible measures to reduce the risk of such an event. They found that U.S. and Russian nuclear-weapons systems remain on high alert. This fact, combined with the aging of Russian technical systems, had recently increased the risk of an accidental nuclear attack. As a conservative estimate, an accidental intermediate-sized launch of weapons from a single Russian submarine would result in the deaths of 6,838,000 persons from firestorms in eight U.S. cities. Millions of other people would probably be exposed to potentially lethal radiation from fallout. An agreement to remove all nuclear missiles from high-level alert status and eliminate the capability of a rapid launch would, in their view, put an end to this threat.

Condizione: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.