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The effects of nuclear weapons. Samuel Glasstone, editor

Nuclear bomb effects computer in pocket. Also issued online. NASM copy: Circular computer lacking. MSRL copy "Changes as of Feb. 1964" inserted. 1. General principles of nuclear explosions -- 2.

The ship that delivered the atomic bomb was sunk, and nobody came to look for it

On August 6, 1945, the atomic mission against Hiroshima began. The primary strike aircraft was the B-29 Enola Gay, piloted by ...
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Protecting Buildings from Bomb Damage: Transfer of Blast-Effects Mitigation Technologies from Military to Civilian Applications

The United States became a victim of terrorism on a grand scale when a powerful bomb exploded in the World Trade Center in New York City in February, 1993. This event, however, was only a precursor to ...
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Nuclear historian outlines the devastating effects of an atomic blast on the human body

In a YouTube video, WIRED interviewed Alex Wellerstein, a professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology, in order to find out more about the sequence of events and physical effects produced by a ...
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Computer, Nuclear Bomb Effects, small

This is a compact version of the specialized slide rule included in the reference book "The Effects of Nuclear Weapons," published by the Atomic Energy Commission in 1957 and revised in 1962. The ...
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What happens after the bombs drop: Scientists reveal the terrifying global aftermath of nuclear war

As the threat of a nuclear war intensifies, the terrifying reality of what could happen after the bombs explode may cause more fear than the initial cataclysm. For decades, worst-case scenarios have ...
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The Risks and Health Effects of Nuclear Blasting

Khaberni - The Family Health Care Institute (one of the King Hussein Foundation's institutes), in its educational health awareness bulletin today, Tuesday, provides important information about the ...
Psychology Today

Is Nuclear War Coming to a Community Near You?

The effects of nuclear bombs are a different order of magnitude from those of conventional weapons. In nuclear war there are devastating blast, firestorm and radiation effects, and no first responders ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

1946: The Bikini Tests and Public Opinion

Editor’s note: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists presents here, from its September 1946 issue, an eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb test in the Marshall Islands. In it, the author not ...
Newsweek

Nuclear Bomb Map Shows Impact of US Weapons on Major Cities

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. President Donald Trump has announced that the United States will resume nuclear testing programs and Newsweek has mapped ...

Bypass the Strait of Hormuz with nuclear explosives? The US studied that in Panama and Colombia in the 1960s

With the world struggling to get oil supplies moving from the Middle East, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich raised eyebrows with a social media post highlighting a radical idea: Use nuclear bombs to ...