Asteroids and Comets: U.S. and International Law and the Lowest-Probability, Highest Consequence Risk
Asteroids and comets pose unique policy problems. They are the ultimate example of a low probability, high consequence event: no one in recorded human history is confirmed to have ever died from an asteroid or a comet, but the odds are that at some time in the next several centuries (and conceivably...
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Scholarship Archive
1997
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Online Access: | https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/697 https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/context/faculty_scholarship/article/1617/viewcontent/6_N.Y.U._Envtl._L.J._4.pdf |