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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * ...thereby punctuating, with mushroom-shaped exclamation points, the end of a world conflict notable not only for its immense scale and destruc-tiveness but also for the extent to which the major com-batants had come to regard massive attacks on civilian populations as a permissible means of waging war. The nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, although they were hardly the first instances of wholesale devastation of cities in World War 2, did demonstrate a terrible new level of technological ef-ficien-cy in the implemen-tation of the strategic bombing approach to warfare which that conflict had spawned. The two nuclear bombings also provided the underpin-nings of a post-war U.S. security policy based on nuclear deterrence -- that is, on the idea that the United States might well be willing to use against others the same awesome capacity for nuclear destruc-tion that it had used against Japan in August of 1945. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * F.S. Chapin et al. 200. Consequences of changing biodiversity. Nature 405:234-242, Fig 2 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * We used two indices to indicate the strength of the Monsoon, wind speed and the number of windy days. When plotting the them against time, we got this consistent, linear declination trend from the year of 1969 and the year of 2000 when we had good quality of data from instrument record. * * * For more about the work of the AAAS, please see For more about work on these issues at Harvard University, please see /?program=STPP For more about work on these issues at the Woods Hole Research Center, please see * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Percentage change in average duration of longest dry period, 30-year average for 2071-2100 compared to that for 1961-1990. Drought projections for IPCC‘s A1B scenario Where we’re headed: droughts Where we’re headed: Heat waves Extreme heat waves in