Faster access than browser!
81 relations: Aerosol, Air burst, Alan Robock, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Carl Sagan, Castle Bravo, Chicxulub crater, Cold War, Cold War II, Counterforce, Countervalue, Cuban Missile Crisis, De-alerting, Derek Parfit, Doomsday Clock, Dystopia, Electromagnetic pulse, Environmental impact of war, Eurasia, Foreign Affairs, Future of Humanity Institute, Global catastrophic risk, Global dimming, Global Policy, Greek language, Historical nuclear weapons stockpiles and nuclear tests by country, Human extinction, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, James B. Pollack, Jonathan Schell, Joseph Rotblat, Journal of Geophysical Research, Lake Toba, Life 3.0, List of nuclear holocaust fiction, Mount Tambora, Mutual assured destruction, Nevil Shute, Nick Bostrom, North America, Nuclear disarmament, Nuclear fallout, Nuclear fratricide, Nuclear terrorism, Nuclear warfare, Nuclear weapon, Nuclear weapons in popular culture, Nuclear winter, ..., Office of Technology Assessment, On the Beach (novel), Owen Toon, Oxford University Press, Philip J. Dolan, Philip Noel-Baker, Physics Today, Precipitation, Radioactive decay, Reasons and Persons, Richard P. Turco, Science (journal), Science fiction, Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, Speculative fiction, Subtropics, Sulfate, Supervolcano, Survivalism, Tephra, The Fate of the Earth, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Examiner, Timeline of volcanism on Earth, TNT equivalent, Tonne, United Nations, United States Geological Survey, World War II, World War III, Year Without a Summer. Expand index (31 more) »
Aerosol
An aerosol is a suspension of fine solid particles or liquid droplets, in air or another gas.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Aerosol · See more »
Air burst
An air burst is the detonation of an explosive device such as an anti-personnel artillery shell or a nuclear weapon in the air instead of on contact with the ground or target or a delayed armor-piercing explosion.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Air burst · See more »
Alan Robock
Alan Robock (born 1949) is an American climatologist.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Alan Robock · See more »
Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction, science fantasy or horror in which the Earth's technological civilization is collapsing or has collapsed.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction · See more »
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki · See more »
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is a nontechnical academic journal, published by Taylor and Francis that covers global security and public policy issues related to the dangers posed by nuclear threats, weapons of mass destruction, climate change, and emerging technologies and biological hazards.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists · See more »
Carl Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Carl Sagan · See more »
Castle Bravo
Castle Bravo was the first in a series of high-yield thermonuclear weapon design tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, as part of Operation Castle.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Castle Bravo · See more »
Chicxulub crater
The Chicxulub crater is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Chicxulub crater · See more »
Cold War
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others).
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Cold War · See more »
Cold War II
Cold War II (also called the New Cold War or Second Cold War) is a term used to describe an ongoing state of political and military tension between opposing geopolitical power-blocs, with one bloc typically reported as being led by Russia and/or China, and the other led by the United States, European Union, and NATO.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Cold War II · See more »
Counterforce
In nuclear strategy, a counterforce target is one that has a military value, such as a launch silo for intercontinental ballistic missiles, an airbase at which nuclear-armed bombers are stationed, a homeport for ballistic missile submarines, or a command and control installation.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Counterforce · See more »
Countervalue
In military doctrine, countervalue is the targeting of an opponent's assets which are of value but not actually a military threat, such as cities and civilian populations.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Countervalue · See more »
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962 (Crisis de Octubre), the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day (October 16–28, 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Cuban Missile Crisis · See more »
De-alerting
De-alerting introduces some reversible physical change(s) to nuclear weapons or weapon systems in order to lengthen the time required to use nuclear weapons in combat.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and De-alerting · See more »
Derek Parfit
Derek Antony Parfit, FBA (11 December 1942 – 1 January 2017) was a British philosopher who specialised in personal identity, rationality, and ethics.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Derek Parfit · See more »
Doomsday Clock
The Doomsday Clock is a symbol which represents the likelihood of a man-made global catastrophe.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Doomsday Clock · See more »
Dystopia
A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- "bad" and τόπος "place"; alternatively, cacotopia,Cacotopia (from κακός kakos "bad") was the term used by Jeremy Bentham in his 19th century works kakotopia, or simply anti-utopia) is a community or society that is undesirable or frightening.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Dystopia · See more »
Electromagnetic pulse
An electromagnetic pulse (EMP), also sometimes called a transient electromagnetic disturbance, is a short burst of electromagnetic energy.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Electromagnetic pulse · See more »
Environmental impact of war
Study of the environmental impact of war focuses on the modernization of warfare and its increasing effects on the environment.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Environmental impact of war · See more »
Eurasia
Eurasia is a combined continental landmass of Europe and Asia.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Eurasia · See more »
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Affairs is an American magazine of international relations and U.S. foreign policy published by the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership organization and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Foreign Affairs · See more »
Future of Humanity Institute
The Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) is an interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Oxford investigating big-picture questions about humanity and its prospects.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Future of Humanity Institute · See more »
Global catastrophic risk
A global catastrophic risk is a hypothetical future event which could damage human well-being on a global scale, even crippling or destroying modern civilization.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Global catastrophic risk · See more »
Global dimming
Global dimming is the gradual reduction in the amount of global direct irradiance at the Earth's surface that was observed for several decades after the start of systematic measurements in the 1950s.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Global dimming · See more »
Global Policy
Global Policy is a peer-reviewed academic journal based at Durham University focusing on the "point where ideas and policy meet", published in association with Wiley-Blackwell.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Global Policy · See more »
Greek language
Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, elliniká, "Greek", ελληνική γλώσσα, ellinikí glóssa, "Greek language") is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Greek language · See more »
Historical nuclear weapons stockpiles and nuclear tests by country
This article shows various estimates of the nuclear weapons stockpiles of various countries at various points in time.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Historical nuclear weapons stockpiles and nuclear tests by country · See more »
Human extinction
In futures studies, human extinction is the hypothetical end of the human species.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Human extinction · See more »
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) is a non-partisan federation of national medical groups in 63 countries, representing doctors, medical students, other health workers, and concerned people who share the common goal of creating a more peaceful and secure world free from the threat of nuclear annihilation.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War · See more »
James B. Pollack
James B. Pollack (July 9, 1938 – June 13, 1994) was an American astrophysicist who worked for NASA's Ames Research Center.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and James B. Pollack · See more »
Jonathan Schell
Jonathan Edward Schell (August 21, 1943 – March 25, 2014) was an American author and visiting fellow at Yale University, whose work primarily dealt with campaigning against nuclear weapons.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Jonathan Schell · See more »
Joseph Rotblat
Sir Joseph Rotblat (4 November 1908 – 31 August 2005) was a Polish physicist, a self-described "Pole with a British passport".
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Joseph Rotblat · See more »
Journal of Geophysical Research
The Journal of Geophysical Research is a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Journal of Geophysical Research · See more »
Lake Toba
Lake Toba (Danau Toba) is a large natural lake in Indonesia occupying the caldera of a supervolcano.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Lake Toba · See more »
Life 3.0
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence is a book by Swedish-American cosmologist Max Tegmark from MIT.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Life 3.0 · See more »
List of nuclear holocaust fiction
This list of nuclear holocaust fiction lists the many works of speculative fiction that attempt to describe a world during or after a massive nuclear war, nuclear holocaust, or crash of civilization due to a nuclear electromagnetic pulse.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and List of nuclear holocaust fiction · See more »
Mount Tambora
Mount Tambora (or Tomboro) is an active stratovolcano on Sumbawa, one of the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Mount Tambora · See more »
Mutual assured destruction
Mutual assured destruction or mutually assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender (see pre-emptive nuclear strike and second strike).
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Mutual assured destruction · See more »
Nevil Shute
Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 189912 January 1960) was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Nevil Shute · See more »
Nick Bostrom
Nick Bostrom (Niklas Boström,; born 10 March 1973) is a Swedish philosopher at the University of Oxford known for his work on existential risk, the anthropic principle, human enhancement ethics, superintelligence risks, and the reversal test.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Nick Bostrom · See more »
North America
North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and North America · See more »
Nuclear disarmament
Nuclear disarmament is the act of reducing or eliminating nuclear weapons.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Nuclear disarmament · See more »
Nuclear fallout
Nuclear fallout, or simply fallout, is the residual radioactive material propelled into the upper atmosphere following a nuclear blast, so called because it "falls out" of the sky after the explosion and the shock wave have passed.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Nuclear fallout · See more »
Nuclear fratricide
In relation to nuclear warfare, nuclear fratricide denotes the inadvertent destruction of nuclear warheads or their delivery systems by detonations from other warheads in the same attack.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Nuclear fratricide · See more »
Nuclear terrorism
Nuclear terrorism refers to an act of terrorism in which a person or people belonging to a terrorist organization detonates a nuclear device.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Nuclear terrorism · See more »
Nuclear warfare
Nuclear warfare (sometimes atomic warfare or thermonuclear warfare) is a military conflict or political strategy in which nuclear weaponry is used to inflict damage on the enemy.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Nuclear warfare · See more »
Nuclear weapon
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb).
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Nuclear weapon · See more »
Nuclear weapons in popular culture
Since their public debut in August 1945, nuclear weapons and their potential effects have been a recurring motif in popular culture, to the extent that the decades of the Cold War are often referred to as the "atomic age".
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Nuclear weapons in popular culture · See more »
Nuclear winter
Nuclear winter is the severe and prolonged global climatic cooling effect hypothesized to occur after widespread firestorms following a nuclear war.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Nuclear winter · See more »
Office of Technology Assessment
The Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) was an office of the United States Congress from 1972 to 1995.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Office of Technology Assessment · See more »
On the Beach (novel)
On the Beach is a 1957 post-apocalyptic novel written by British-Australian author Nevil Shute after he emigrated to Australia.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and On the Beach (novel) · See more »
Owen Toon
Owen Brian Toon (born May 26, 1947 in Bethesda, Maryland) is a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Owen Toon · See more »
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Oxford University Press · See more »
Philip J. Dolan
Philip Jarvis Dolan (October 5, 1923 – January 5, 1992) graduated in physics from West Point in 1945, was assigned to the Manhattan Project, Los Alamos, in 1948 received his MSc in physics from the University of Virginia in 1956.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Philip J. Dolan · See more »
Philip Noel-Baker
Philip John Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, (1 November 1889 – 8 October 1982), born Philip John Baker, was a British politician, diplomat, academic, outstanding amateur athlete, and renowned campaigner for disarmament.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Philip Noel-Baker · See more »
Physics Today
Physics Today is the membership magazine of the American Institute of Physics that was established in 1948.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Physics Today · See more »
Precipitation
In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls under gravity.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Precipitation · See more »
Radioactive decay
Radioactive decay (also known as nuclear decay or radioactivity) is the process by which an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy (in terms of mass in its rest frame) by emitting radiation, such as an alpha particle, beta particle with neutrino or only a neutrino in the case of electron capture, gamma ray, or electron in the case of internal conversion.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Radioactive decay · See more »
Reasons and Persons
Reasons and Persons is a 1984 philosophical work by Derek Parfit, in which the author discusses ethics, rationality and personal identity.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Reasons and Persons · See more »
Richard P. Turco
Richard Peter "Rich" Turco (born 1943) is an American atmospheric scientist, and Professor at the Institute of the Environment, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Richard P. Turco · See more »
Science (journal)
Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Science (journal) · See more »
Science fiction
Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Science fiction · See more »
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is a spacecraft built by a European industrial consortium led by Matra Marconi Space (now Astrium) that was launched on a Lockheed Martin Atlas II AS launch vehicle on December 2, 1995, to study the Sun, and has discovered over 3000 comets.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Solar and Heliospheric Observatory · See more »
Speculative fiction
Speculative fiction is an umbrella genre encompassing narrative fiction with supernatural and/or futuristic elements.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Speculative fiction · See more »
Subtropics
The subtropics are geographic and climate zones located roughly between the tropics at latitude 23.5° (the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn) and temperate zones (normally referring to latitudes 35–66.5°) north and south of the Equator.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Subtropics · See more »
Sulfate
The sulfate or sulphate (see spelling differences) ion is a polyatomic anion with the empirical formula.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Sulfate · See more »
Supervolcano
A supervolcano is a large volcano that has had an eruption of magnitude 8, which is the largest value on the Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI).
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Supervolcano · See more »
Survivalism
Survivalism is a primarily American movement of individuals or groups (called survivalists or preppers) who are actively preparing for emergencies, including possible disruptions in social or political order, on scales from local to international.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Survivalism · See more »
Tephra
Tephra is fragmental material produced by a volcanic eruption regardless of composition, fragment size, or emplacement mechanism.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Tephra · See more »
The Fate of the Earth
The Fate of the Earth is a 1982 book by Jonathan Schell.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and The Fate of the Earth · See more »
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and The Wall Street Journal · See more »
The Washington Examiner
The Washington Examiner is an American political journalism website and weekly magazine based in Washington, D.C. that covers politics and policy in the United States and internationally.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and The Washington Examiner · See more »
Timeline of volcanism on Earth
This timeline of volcanism on Earth is a list of major volcanic eruptions of approximately at least magnitude 6 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) or equivalent sulfur dioxide emission around the Quaternary period.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Timeline of volcanism on Earth · See more »
TNT equivalent
TNT equivalent is a convention for expressing energy, typically used to describe the energy released in an explosion.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and TNT equivalent · See more »
Tonne
The tonne (Non-SI unit, symbol: t), commonly referred to as the metric ton in the United States, is a non-SI metric unit of mass equal to 1,000 kilograms;.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Tonne · See more »
United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and United Nations · See more »
United States Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey (USGS, formerly simply Geological Survey) is a scientific agency of the United States government.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and United States Geological Survey · See more »
World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and World War II · See more »
World War III
World War III (WWIII or WW3) and the Third World War are names given to a hypothetical third worldwide large-scale military conflict subsequent to World War I and World War II.
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and World War III · See more »
Year Without a Summer
The year 1816 is known as the Year Without a Summer (also the Poverty Year and Eighteen Hundred and Froze To Death) because of severe climate abnormalities that caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0.4–0.7 °C (0.7–1.3 °F).
New!!: Nuclear holocaust and Year Without a Summer · See more »
Redirects here:
All-out nuclear warfare, Nuclear Annihilation, Nuclear Armageddon, Nuclear Holocaust, Nuclear annihilation, Nuclear apocalypse, Nuclear armageddon, Nuclear extinction, Nuclear holocast, Post-nuclear.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_holocaust
