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.

  • Commentary
  • Published:

Quenching the wild wells of Kuwait

Nature volume 354, pages 11–14 (1991)Cite this article

The last of the hundreds of oil-well fires left in Kuwait by Iraq should be capped this week. Although progress has been remarkable, a mechanism is needed to cope with future large-scale disasters.

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

Access options

Buy this article

  • Purchase on Springer Link
  • Instant access to full article PDF
Buy now

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

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, PO Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York, 10598, USA

    Richard L. Garwin

  2. Department of Physics, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139, USA

    Henry W. Kendall

Authors
  1. Richard L. Garwin
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Henry W. Kendall
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Garwin, R., Kendall, H. Quenching the wild wells of Kuwait. Nature 354, 11–14 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1038/354011a0

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/354011a0

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