Track	Section	Length
1	01 - Section 1	15:21
2	02 - Section 2	24:14
3	03 - Section 3	15:58

Notes
Read by: Allyson Hester
Book Coordinator: Allyson Hester
Meta Coordinator: Leon Mire
Proof Listener: Kehinde

Artwork
Cover: Nuclear winter, image from Wikimedia Commons, author unknown
Inset: CIA maps showing global temperature changes after a nuclear winter. From "The Soviet Approach to Nuclear Winter", December 1984.
Inset: Logo of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Insert image: Primary target locations for Soviet nuclear strikes during 1980s. The resulting fall-out is indicated with the darkest considered as “lethal” to relatively fall-out free yellow zones. March 2, 2011, Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Insert image: Nuclear warhead stockpiles of the United States and the Soviet Union/Russia, 1945-2014. Wikimedia Commons.

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Recognizing that most research done on the effects of nuclear weapons had focused on short term consequences, in 1974 the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency commissioned the National Academy of Sciences to produce a study that became Long-Term Worldwide Effects of Multiple Nuclear Weapons Detonations. The highly technical report ran to over 200 pages, so the Agency produced an abbreviated version of the study which conveyed its essential findings along with information from other studies and basic background facts. The Academy found that a massive attack with multiple detonations was likely to create such widespread and long-lasting environmental damage that an aggressor nation would itself suffer serious environmental effects even without a response. Perhaps the most compelling conclusion is that existing knowledge is largely based on theory and hypothesis and so uncertainty as to the consequences is the central truth. We just don’t really know what would happen, and that alone should serve as a deterrent. The report presents the findings in language that common people can understand; scientific background is not necessary.

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Item Info
EAN - DVD case	0701236969429
EAN - CD jacket	0687700170778
Media	MP3 CD
Package	DVD Case
Author	The United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Year	1975
Recording
Read by	Allyson Hester
Length	55 minutes
Type of Reading	Solo