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In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: William Daugherty, Barbara Levi and Frank von Hippel William Daugherty is a student, Barbara Levi is a research staff member at the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, and Frank von Hippel is a professor at the Woodrow Wilson School and a senior research associate at the CEES, all at Princeton University. Footnotes This article is adapted from a presentation at a symposium on The Medical Implications of Nuclear War, sponsored by the Institute of Medicine-National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D. C., September 20-22, 1985. The full proceedings of this symposium will be available in early summer from the National Academy Press, 2101 Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. 20418. More details may be found in a technical report, Casualties Due to the Blast, Heat and Radioactive Fallout From Various Hypothetical Nuclear Attacks on the US. 1. See, for example, James R. Schlesinger, Annual Defense Department Report, FY 1975, pp. 32-41. 2. See, for example, Sidney D. Drell and Frank von Hippel, "Limited Nuclear War," Scientific American, November 1976, p. 27. 3. Desmond Ball, Targeting for Strategic Deterrence, Adelphi Paper No. 185, p. 19. 4. Analyses of Effects of Limited Nuclear Warfare, committee print prepared for the Subcommittee on Arms Control, International Organizations and Security Agreements of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, September 1975. 5. See, for example, William M. Arkin, Frank von Hippel, and Barbara G. Levi, "The Consequences of a ’Limited’ Nuclear War in East and West Germany," Ambio, Vol. 11, p. 163. 6. Theodore A. Postol, "Possible Fatalities From Superfires Following Nuclear Attacks in or Near Urban Areas," in The Medical Implications of Nuclear War: Proceedings of the Institute of Medicine Symposium, September 1985. 7. U.S. Department of Defense, "Sensitivity of Collateral Damage Calculations to Limited Nuclear War Scenarios," in Analyses of Effects of Limited Nuclear Warfare, pp. 12-24. 8. See, for example, Arthur M. Katz, Life After Nuclear War: The Economic and Social Impacts of Nuclear Attacks on the United States ; and Mark A. Harwell and Thomas C. Hutchinson, Environmental Consequences of Nuclear War II: Ecological and Agricultural Effects. 9. Committee for the Compilation of Materials on Damage Caused by the Atomic Bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Physical, Medical and Social Effects of the Atomic Bombings, pp. 135, 148. 10. Samuel Glasstone and Phillip J. Dolan, eds., The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, 3rd ed., pp. 333, 334, 346, 347. 11. Glasstone and Dolan, The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, pp. 313, 319. 12. Harold L. Brode and Richard D. Small, Fire Damage and Strategic Targeting. 13. Glasstone and Dolan, The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, p. 304. 14. Hiroshima and Nagasaki, pp. 58-59. 15. W.E. Loewe and E. Mendelsohn, "Neutron and gamma doses at Hiroshima and Nagasaki," Nuclear Science and Engineering, Vol. 81, p. 325. 16. Glasstone and Dolan, The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, p. 36. 17. Hiroshima and Nagasaki, p. 35. 18. Brode and Small, Fire Damage and Strategic Targeting. 19. Glasstone and Dolan, The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, p. 115. 20. C.L. Comar, Fallout From Nuclear Tests, p. 12. 21. Adapted from Ashley W. Oughterson and Shields Warren, eds., Medical Effects of the Atomic Bomb in Japan, p. 30. 22. See, for example, U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, The Effects of Nuclear War, p. 19. 23. Oughterson and Warren, Medical Effects of the Atomic Bomb in Japan, p. 43. 24. Postol, "Possible Fatalities From Superfires." 25. C. Wilton, D.J. Myronuk, and J.V. Zaccor, Secondary Fire Analysis (Redwood City...