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The Effects of Nuclear Weapons 1957

Samuel Glasstone (Editor), The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1st edition, June 1957. Obsolete information is excluded. This edition contains chapter on civil defense (chapter 12) which has vital photographs which were removed from the 1962/4 edition, while the entire chapter on civil defense was removed entirely from the 1977 edition (essentially because the U.S. Office of Civil Defense had been removed from U.S. Department of Defense in the 1970s, with civil defense taken over by FEMA, which had no role in editing this book whatsoever, since it was a joint DOE and DOD publication). It also contains a chapter on Worldwide Fallout which was removed from later editions (to make room for a chapter on the EMP and radio interference effects). Justification: http://glasstone.blogspot.co.uk/ See also the 1964 edition: http://archive.org/details/TheEffectsOfNuclearWeapons 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 Compare to the civil defense material extracted from the

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