[PDF] The Effects Of Nuclear War eBook

Author : Richard Wolfson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 12,92 MB
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 026254203X

GET BOOK

An authoritative and unbiased guide to nuclear technology and the controversies that surround it. Are you for nuclear power or against it? What's the basis of your opinion? Did you know a CT scan gives you some 2 millisieverts of radiation? Do you know how much a millisievert is? Does irradiation make foods safer or less safe? What is the point of a bilateral Russia-US nuclear weapons treaty in a multipolar world? These are nuclear questions that call for nuclear choices, and this book equips citizens to make these choices informed ones. It explains, clearly and accessibly, the basics of nuclear technology and describes the controversies surrounding its use.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 17,55 MB
Release : 2005-10-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0309096731

GET BOOK

Underground facilities are used extensively by many nations to conceal and protect strategic military functions and weapons' stockpiles. Because of their depth and hardened status, however, many of these strategic hard and deeply buried targets could only be put at risk by conventional or nuclear earth penetrating weapons (EPW). Recently, an engineering feasibility study, the robust nuclear earth penetrator program, was started by DOE and DOD to determine if a more effective EPW could be designed using major components of existing nuclear weapons. This activity has created some controversy about, among other things, the level of collateral damage that would ensue if such a weapon were used. To help clarify this issue, the Congress, in P.L. 107-314, directed the Secretary of Defense to request from the NRC a study of the anticipated health and environmental effects of nuclear earth-penetrators and other weapons and the effect of both conventional and nuclear weapons against the storage of biological and chemical weapons. This report provides the results of those analyses. Based on detailed numerical calculations, the report presents a series of findings comparing the effectiveness and expected collateral damage of nuclear EPW and surface nuclear weapons under a variety of conditions.

Author : Carole Gallagher
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 43,68 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Nuclear weapons
ISBN : 0262071460

GET BOOK

One photojournalist's decade-long commitment, a gripping collection of portraits and interviews of those whose lives were crossed by radioactive fallout.

Author : M.A. Harwell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 26,70 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 1461252881

GET BOOK

In 1982, three conservationists in the United States discussed a growing concern they shared about the long-term biological consequences of nuclear war; they wondered what such a war would do to the air, the water, the soils 1 the natural systems upon which all life depends. I was one of those three; the others were executives of two philanthropic foundations, Robert L. Allen of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation and the late Robert W. Scrivner of the Rockefeller Family Fund. Together we began trying to! find out what the scientific community was doing about the problem and what steps could be taken to alert the environmental movement to the need to address the subject. We knew that a large-scale nuclear war might kill from 300 million to a billion people outright and that another billion could suffer serious injuries requiring immediate medical attention, care that would be largely unavailable. But what kind of world wouldisurvivors face? Would the long-term consequences prove to humanity and survival of all species than the to be even more serious immediate effects? We found that comparatively little scientific research had been done about the envifonmental consequences of a nuclear war of the magni tude that toda,y's huge arsenal could unleash . .

Author : Franklyn Griffiths
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 38,85 MB
Release : 1979-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1487597924

GET BOOK

This collection of studies is one of the most lucid and sober analyses of the dangers of nuclear war, which mankind is facing. Written by natural and social scientists, the book should be read both by statesmen and by the general public. Looking towards the end of the century it makes clear the growing dangers. Avoiding complacency on the other hand, and prophecies of doom on the other, it contains a message of hope and an appeal to wisdom.

Author : Joseph Rotblat
Publisher : Taylor & Francis Group
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 27,51 MB
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN :

GET BOOK

Indhold: Digest of nuclear weaponry; Biological effects of radiations on man; Radiations from nuclear explosions; Radiation casualties in a nuclear war; Effectiveness of civil defence; Other warlike uses of radiation.

Author : Cresson H. Kearny
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,29 MB
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1510702059

GET BOOK

A field-tested guide to surviving a nuclear attack, written by a revered civil defense expert. This edition of Cresson H. Kearny’s iconic Nuclear War Survival Skills (originally published in 1979), updated by Kearny himself in 1987 and again in 2001, offers expert advice for ensuring your family’s safety should the worst come to pass. Chock-full of practical instructions and preventative measures, Nuclear War Survival Skills is based on years of meticulous scientific research conducted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Featuring a new introduction by ex-Navy SEAL Don Mann, this book also includes: instructions for six different fallout shelters, myths and facts about the dangers of nuclear weapons, tips for maintaining an adequate food and water supply, a foreword by “the father of the hydrogen bomb,” physicist Dr. Edward Teller, and an “About the Author” note by Eugene P. Wigner, physicist and Nobel Laureate. Written at a time when global tensions were at their peak, Nuclear War Survival Skills remains relevant in the dangerous age in which we now live.