Litteratur |
Radioactive Carbon from Nuclear Explosions and Nonthreshold
Biological Effects. / : Andrei D. Sakharov.
Science & Global Security, 1990, Volume I, pp.175-187.
- http://scienceandglobalsecurity.org/archive/sgs01sakharov.pdf
In this article, which appeared in the June 1958 issue of the
Soviet journal, Atomic Energy, Sakharov estimated that about 10,000
people would ultimately suffer cancers, genetic disorders, and
other ill effects from the radioactivity produced by a 1-megaton
nuclear explosion in the atmosphere According to this estimate, the
1961 Soviet test of a 58-megaton nuclear explosive-, an explosion
that by itself accounts for about 10 percent to the total yield of
all atmospheric nuclear explosions in history--will, in the long
term, injure or kill about half a million people.