Overview
Introduction
The Four Horsemen
by Jesse Emspak
Section 1: Predicting the Apocalypse
1.1 Laying Odds on the Apocalypse
by John Matson and John Pavlus
1.2 Doom and Gloom by 2100
by Julie Wakefield
Section 2: Plague
2.1 Preparing for a Pandemic
by W. Wayt Gibbs and Christine Soares
2.2 The Enemy Within
by Maryn McKenna
Section 3: Famine
3.1 Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization
by Lester R. Brown
3.2 Phosphorus: A Looming Crisis
by David A. Viccari
Section 4: War
4.1 The Climatic Effects of Nuclear War
by Richard P. Turco, Owen B. Toon, Thomas P. Ackerman, James B. Pollack and Carl Sagan
4.2 The Prompt and Delayed Effects of Nuclear Winter
by Kevin N. Lewis
4.3 Local Nuclear War, Global Suffering
by Alan Robock and Owen Brian Toon
Section 5: Death from Above
5.1 Collisions with Comets and Asteroids
by Tom Gehrels
5.2 Stop the Killer Rocks
by Edward T. Lu
5.3 Asteroid Collision
by Robin Lloyd
Section 6: Death from Below
6.1 Impact from the Deep
by Peter D. Ward
6.2 The Secrets of Supervolcanoes
by Ilya N. Bindeman
Section 7: Environmental Collapse
7.1 Abrupt Climate Change
by Richard B. Alley
7.2 Casualties of Climate Change
by Alex de Sherbinin, Koko Warner and Charles Ehrhart
7.3 Climate Armageddon [Excerpt]
by Fred Guterl
Section 8: With a Whimper
8.1 The Fate of Life in the Universe
by Lawrence M. Krauss and Glenn D. Starkman
8.2 Could Time End?
by George Musser