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Environmental Consequences of Nuclear Warfare*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Arthur H. Westing
Arthur H. Westing
Affiliation:
Professor of Ecology, School of Natural Science, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts 01002, USA; Senior Research Fellow of SIPRI.
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Guest Editorial
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Environmental Conservation , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , Winter 1982, pp. 269 - 272
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1982

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