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Steven Starr, MT (ASCP)

City, State: Columbia, Missouri
PSR Affiliation: Senior Scientist
Professional Affiliation: Director of Clinical Laboratory Science Program, University of Missouri-Columbia

Areas of Expertise:

  • Nuclear proliferation
  • Risk of nuclear war causing acute climate change
  • Taking nuclear weapons off high-alert status 

Publications:

Let's Go No-LOW, Phillips A, Starr S, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Volume 60, No. 3, May/June, 2004

The Effects of a 300 kiloton Nuclear Warhead Detonated Above Washington, D.C., Nuclear Age  Peace Foundation, November, 2005
 
Change Launch on Warning Policy, Phillips A, Starr S, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Center for Arms Control Strategic Arms Reductions (STAR), April, 2006
 
An Explanation of Nuclear Weapons Terminology, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, December, 2007
 
Catastrophic Climatic Consequences of Nuclear Conflict, Bulletin of the International Engineers and Scientists Against Nuclear Proliferation, Volume 28, April, 2008
 
Cold War has Thawed Only Slightly, Columbia Daily Tribune, June 22, 2008
 
High-Alert Nuclear Weapons: the Forgotten Danger, Scientists for Global Responsibility Newsletter, No. 36, Autumn 2008
 
Nuclear Suicide, Australia Broadcasting Company (ABC) Unleashed website, July 31, 2009, http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2642235.htm and also http://www.sciencealert.com.au/opinions/20090208-19496.html
 
Most of Steven Starr's writings can be found at his website, www.nucleardarkness.org.

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