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The Effects of Nuclear Weapons

Samuel Glasstone (Editor), The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1964 edition: edited down to civil defense information. Contains a vital civil defense chapter 12, "Principles of Protection", which was omitted from the final 1977 edition. Obsolete material and technical material which is not relevant to civil defense is excluded. Justification: http://glasstone.blogspot.co.uk/ See also: The effects of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan (the secret U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey report 92, Pacific Theatre) located at: http://archive.org/details/TheEffectsOfTheAtomicBombOnHiroshima See also the 1957 edition of Glasstone in compressed form: https://archive.org/details/TheEffectsOfNuclearWeapons1957 Compare to the civil defense material extracted from the June 1957 edition of "The Effects of Nuclear Weapons" at https://archive.org/details/Anderson_shelter The 1977 edition of "The Effects of Nuclear Weapons" omitted the fire prevention evidence and photographs from the 1953 Upshot-Knothole ENCORE test which was included in the 1957 and 1962/4 editions, leading to the myth of "nuclear winter" due to firestorm mythology in 1983. It a

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