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... just to the prevention and reduction of pollution. Our study group calculated that in 1979 the social cost of coping with hazards associated with technology in the United States was equivalent to between 7 and 12 percent of GNP, with about half devoted to hazard management and the remainder incurred as damages to people, material, and the environment (fuller, in press)
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... But there are also genuine scientific surprises. Forty years after Hiroshima, nuclear winter, a major new consequence of nuclear war, is hypothesized (National Research Council, 19859.
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  • hazard management
  • nuclear winter
  • technological hazards


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