Earth in Flames
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Earth in Flames
How an Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs and How We Can Avoid a Similar Fate From Nuclear Winter
Toon, Owen Brian; Robock, Alan
Oxford University Press Inc
07/2025
264
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9780197799703
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Preface: How we met and a brief history
Chapter 1. Prologue
Part I. Impacts, Asteroid Winters, and Dinosaurs
Chapter 2. The power of asteroids and comets. When will the next big one hit?
Chapter 3. Clues from craters, assured destruction, and ejecta layers.
Chapter 4. Whole world on fire. What really killed the dinosaurs.
Chapter 5 Can we stop an asteroid or comet collision in the future?
Part II: Humans and Nuclear Winter
Chapter 6. You too could build a bomb. It can't be hard, there are a lot of them.
Chapter 7. How many bombs are out there, and how could they be delivered?
Chapter 8. Scenarios for war, and near misses.
Chapter 9. Are you being targeted with a nuclear weapon?
Chapter 10. Assured destruction by nuclear explosions.
Chapter 11. Firestorms in cities.
Chapter 12. Climate disaster, climate models, and natural analogs
Chapter 13. Impacts on humans of nuclear war.
Part III Epilogue. Could it happen?
Chapter 14. Will humans become extinct from an asteroid collision or a nuclear war?
Chapter 15. Can we avoid nuclear war?
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Index (still to be compiled)
References
Chapter 1. Prologue
Part I. Impacts, Asteroid Winters, and Dinosaurs
Chapter 2. The power of asteroids and comets. When will the next big one hit?
Chapter 3. Clues from craters, assured destruction, and ejecta layers.
Chapter 4. Whole world on fire. What really killed the dinosaurs.
Chapter 5 Can we stop an asteroid or comet collision in the future?
Part II: Humans and Nuclear Winter
Chapter 6. You too could build a bomb. It can't be hard, there are a lot of them.
Chapter 7. How many bombs are out there, and how could they be delivered?
Chapter 8. Scenarios for war, and near misses.
Chapter 9. Are you being targeted with a nuclear weapon?
Chapter 10. Assured destruction by nuclear explosions.
Chapter 11. Firestorms in cities.
Chapter 12. Climate disaster, climate models, and natural analogs
Chapter 13. Impacts on humans of nuclear war.
Part III Epilogue. Could it happen?
Chapter 14. Will humans become extinct from an asteroid collision or a nuclear war?
Chapter 15. Can we avoid nuclear war?
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Index (still to be compiled)
References
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Preface: How we met and a brief history
Chapter 1. Prologue
Part I. Impacts, Asteroid Winters, and Dinosaurs
Chapter 2. The power of asteroids and comets. When will the next big one hit?
Chapter 3. Clues from craters, assured destruction, and ejecta layers.
Chapter 4. Whole world on fire. What really killed the dinosaurs.
Chapter 5 Can we stop an asteroid or comet collision in the future?
Part II: Humans and Nuclear Winter
Chapter 6. You too could build a bomb. It can't be hard, there are a lot of them.
Chapter 7. How many bombs are out there, and how could they be delivered?
Chapter 8. Scenarios for war, and near misses.
Chapter 9. Are you being targeted with a nuclear weapon?
Chapter 10. Assured destruction by nuclear explosions.
Chapter 11. Firestorms in cities.
Chapter 12. Climate disaster, climate models, and natural analogs
Chapter 13. Impacts on humans of nuclear war.
Part III Epilogue. Could it happen?
Chapter 14. Will humans become extinct from an asteroid collision or a nuclear war?
Chapter 15. Can we avoid nuclear war?
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Index (still to be compiled)
References
Chapter 1. Prologue
Part I. Impacts, Asteroid Winters, and Dinosaurs
Chapter 2. The power of asteroids and comets. When will the next big one hit?
Chapter 3. Clues from craters, assured destruction, and ejecta layers.
Chapter 4. Whole world on fire. What really killed the dinosaurs.
Chapter 5 Can we stop an asteroid or comet collision in the future?
Part II: Humans and Nuclear Winter
Chapter 6. You too could build a bomb. It can't be hard, there are a lot of them.
Chapter 7. How many bombs are out there, and how could they be delivered?
Chapter 8. Scenarios for war, and near misses.
Chapter 9. Are you being targeted with a nuclear weapon?
Chapter 10. Assured destruction by nuclear explosions.
Chapter 11. Firestorms in cities.
Chapter 12. Climate disaster, climate models, and natural analogs
Chapter 13. Impacts on humans of nuclear war.
Part III Epilogue. Could it happen?
Chapter 14. Will humans become extinct from an asteroid collision or a nuclear war?
Chapter 15. Can we avoid nuclear war?
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Index (still to be compiled)
References
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