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Why were Scud casualties so low?

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Patriot missiles were returned to the Gulf last week. But they were not the reason for the unexpectedly low casualty rate when Saddam attacked Israel with Scud missiles in 1991.

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  1. Steve Fetter, George N. Lewis and Lisbeth Gronlund: and is a research fellow at DACS. This article is based on a more detailed paper (ref. 14.)

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  1. the School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 20742, USA

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  2. the Defense and Arms Control Studies (DACS) Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mas-sachusetts, 02139, USA

    George N. Lewis

  3. the Union of Concerned Scientists, 26 Church Street, Cambridge, Mas-sachusetts, 02238, USA

    Lisbeth Gronlund

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Fetter, S., Lewis, G. & Gronlund, L. Why were Scud casualties so low?. Nature 361, 293–296 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1038/361293a0

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