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Nuclear War and Climatic Catastrophe: Some Policy Implications
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This article is published in Foreign Affairs.The article was published on 1983-12-01. It has received 154 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Military operations other than war.read more
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The Evolution of International Security Studies
Barry Buzan,Lene Hansen +1 more
TL;DR: A survey of the literature and institutions of International Security Studies (ISS) can be found in this paper, along with a detailed institutional account of ISS in terms of its journals, departments, think tanks and funding sources.
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The Long Peace: Elements of Stability in the Postwar International System
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Bad Weather: On Planetary Crisis
TL;DR: The authors examines the evolution of (and competition between) two ideas of planetary crisis since 1945: nuclear war and climate change, and offers an alternative history of the nuclear age and considers the US national security implications of a shift in the definition of global crisis from...
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The Medical Implications of Nuclear War
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an overview of the physical and environmental effects of nuclear war, setting the stage for later sections that address the medical impact of various types of nuclear attack.
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Reducing the risk of human extinction
TL;DR: The challenges to studying human extinction risks are reviewed and, by way of example, the cost effectiveness of preventing extinction-level asteroid impacts is estimated.
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