Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • Book Review
  • Published:

Hazards beyond number

Nature volume 317, pages 117–118 (1985)Cite this article

Risk Watch: The Odds of Life.

By John Urquhart and Klaus Heilmann. Facts on File: 1985. Pp.214. 16.95, 11.95. Risk: Man-made Hazards to Man. Edited by M. G. Cooper. Clarendon: 1985. Pp.141. Hbk 15, 23.95; pbk 9.95, 12.95.

Access through your institution
Buy or subscribe

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Access options

Access through your institution

Buy this article

  • Purchase on SpringerLink
  • Instant access to full article PDF
Buy now

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

Author information

Author notes

  1. David L. Sills: He is a co-editor of Accident at Three Mile Island (Westview, 1982) and The Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident (New York Academy of Sciences, 1981).

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Executive Associate at the Social Science Research Council, 605 Third Avenue, New York, New York, 10158, USA

    David L. Sills

Authors
  1. David L. Sills
    View author publications

    Search author on:PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Sills, D. Hazards beyond number. Nature 317, 117–118 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1038/317117a0

Download citation

  • Issue date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/317117a0

Search

Advanced search

Quick links

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing