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The Effects of Nuclear Weapons Hardcover – June 1, 1983

by Samuel Glasstone (Author), Philip J. Dolan (Author)

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Language

English
Publisher

United States Government Printing
Publication date

June 1, 1983
Dimensions

7 x 1.75 x 10.25 inches
ISBN-10

0160020360
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978-0160020360
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ United States Government Printing (June 1, 1983)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0160020360
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0160020360
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.9 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1.75 x 10.25 inches

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Poor tables and graphs

Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2021

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I just got the book today and read through the first 15 or so pages. I love the book for the information, but I can tell that the tables were simply photocopied from older versions because on multiple tables I cannot read anything on them because they are so blurry. The same goes for a few of the graphs. And the photographs are very small in size. I’m not sure if that is how it is in older versions. At least the text is easy to read.

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smswedenburg

Amazing history considering the 830 plus above ground and underground ...

Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2017

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Amazing history considering the 830 plus above ground and underground tests up to the 1980's.
The information ends in 1962 while testing was still in progress.
This is a largely medical and civic design primer for radiation effects.

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Back pocket source for Godzilla's "Atomic Breath"

Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2019

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I had examined this book from the Douglas Aircraft Library and new it was not from Formerly Restricted Data or even University bubble chamber microfilm. The graphs are too soon for my grandson but my memory of a passage about shock waves, "walking down corridors or even descending steps into basements" is in there somewhere.

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Douglas A. Samuelson

the best source, period

Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2008

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Most of what has ever been available in the open literature about the effects of nuclear weapons was available in the 1962 and 1964 editions of this gem of a book. Later works, even including later versions of this book, are more noteworthy for what got taken out than for what, if anything, got added. The language is clear enough for a journalist writing about "what would happen if..." and detailed enough, including equations, for the most exacting scientist. If you're lucky you can even find an edition that includes the "bomb effects computer," a cleverly designed simple device, essentially a circular slide rule, that makes it easy to calculate, in case you don't know or have forgotten how to use the equations, how effects change as a function of yield, distance, and height of detonation. Still the best after all these years!

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Neat book from an earlier time.

Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2013

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This is an interesting book if you get the computer with it. It is a cool item from the time when we were going to be hit by Russia at any time. The book describes the effects of Nuclear Weapons and gives you a little compass type thing that allows you to determine basically, the size of the hole in the ground where you are standing. It is the computer used in Dr. Strangelove as well. Pretty awesome all around. A great piece of history as well. Make sure you ask if the Computer is included as often it is not.

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Latest edition of the definitive book on all we've learned about the effects of nuclear and thermonuclear weapons. (At least the unclassified portions of the information).

Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2021

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Got here a day early. Wonderful book

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Jaime Tumbas

Okay, we know that these things bust stuff up ...

Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2015

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Okay, we know that these things bust stuff up and make a lot of noise. This is the full treatment. I discovered the book at UC Berkeley in the stacks and was smitten by the circular slide rule in the back, which listed wind velocities of up to 2,000 miles per hour . . . my kind of stuff.

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Massimo Intropido

Very good

Reviewed in Italy on February 4, 2017

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Book in perfect conditions. A complete manual about the physics of nuclear weapons, at least from the ballistic point of view. Hope no more of them will ever be used!!!!

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