At the end of 1983 Gallup polls showed that 52 percent of Americans thought that the probability of a world war in the … next 10 years was 50% or higher; by 1989 the percentage had dropped to 29%. Fear of war of this pervasiveness is bound to …-sectional relationship between saving and fear of war using responses to telephone surveys conducted during April and October of 1990. The …

believes a world war is likely is associated with a decline of 4.1 percentage points in the net private saving rate, This …This paper demonstrates that a survey-based measure of the perceived likelihood of nuclear war in a country is … nuclear war is calculated from surveys conducted in each country by the Gallup International Research Institutes. The …