Gaseous and Particulate Emissions from Forest Fires

1 Gaseous and Particulate Emissions from Forest Fires 

In the US and especially in Canada and the USSR, vast forests are found close to important urban strategic centers, so that it may be expected that many wildfires would start burning during and after the nuclear exchange. Although it is hard to estimate how much forest area might bum, a total of 10 km, spread around in the Northern Hemisphere, is probably an underestimate, as it is only about 20 times 

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