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Emergency Response to Nuclear Accident and Attack

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Jennifer Leaning-Link ,
Mitchell Kling  and
Mary E. Lord
Jennifer Leaning-Link
Affiliation:
From “Physicians for Social Responsibility,” 639 Massachusets Ave., Cambridge MA 02139USA. Telephone (617)491-2754.
Mitchell Kling
Affiliation:
From “Physicians for Social Responsibility,” 639 Massachusets Ave., Cambridge MA 02139USA. Telephone (617)491-2754.
Mary E. Lord
Affiliation:
From “Physicians for Social Responsibility,” 639 Massachusets Ave., Cambridge MA 02139USA. Telephone (617)491-2754.
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Disaster plans in response to a nuclear crisis involve extended forays into uncertainty. Controversy arises over whether or not a nuclear disaster or war might ever occur. Estimates of destructive parameters vary widely. Planning must take into account a wide range of issues, from the nature of radiation injury to the survival capacity of social systems. From the standpoint of analyzing possibilities for emergency response, we will discuss: l) medical effects of radiation; 2) severe core meltdown at a nuclear power plant; and 3) a scenario for a nuclear bomb explosion over one city in the USA, in the setting of a strategic nuclear exchange.

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Part III: International Organizations - Planning - Disaster Events
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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 1 , supplement S1: Disaster Resuscitology , 1985 , pp. 385 - 395
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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1985

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