The Effects of Nuclear Weapons
Author | : United States. Defense Atomic Support Agency |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 754 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Atomic bomb |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : United States. Defense Atomic Support Agency |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 754 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Atomic bomb |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Fred Solomon |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 609 |
Release | : 1986-01-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780309078665 |
Written by world-renowned scientists, this volume portrays the possible direct and indirect devastation of human health from a nuclear attack. The most comprehensive work yet produced on this subject, The Medical Implications of Nuclear War includes an overview of the potential environmental and physical effects of nuclear bombardment, describes the problems of choosing who among the injured would get the scarce medical care available, addresses the nuclear arms race from a psychosocial perspective, and reviews the medical needs--in contrast to the medical resources likely to be available--after a nuclear attack. "It should serve as the definitive statement on the consequences of nuclear war."--Arms Control Today
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2005-10-06 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0309096731 |
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 | : Richard Wolfson |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2021-03-23 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 026254203X |
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 | : Institute of Medicine |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2009-08-19 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0309143969 |
A nuclear attack on a large U.S. city by terrorists-even with a low-yield improvised nuclear device (IND) of 10 kilotons or less-would cause a large number of deaths and severe injuries. The large number of injured from the detonation and radioactive fallout that would follow would be overwhelming for local emergency response and health care systems to rescue and treat, even assuming that these systems and their personnel were not themselves incapacitated by the event. The United States has been struggling for some time to address and plan for the threat of nuclear terrorism and other weapons of mass destruction that terrorists might obtain and use. The Department of Homeland Security recently contracted with the Institute of Medicine to hold a workshop, summarized in this volume, to assess medical preparedness for a nuclear detonation of up to 10 kilotons. This book provides a candid and sobering look at our current state of preparedness for an IND, and identifies several key areas in which we might begin to focus our national efforts in a way that will improve the overall level of preparedness.
Author | : United States. Department of Defense |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 768 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Atomic bomb |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Samuel Glasstone |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 750 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Atomic bomb |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Defense Atomic Support Agency |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 762 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Atomic bomb |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gro Nystuen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 804 |
Release | : 2014-08-28 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1139992740 |
Nuclear Weapons under International Law is a comprehensive treatment of nuclear weapons under key international law regimes. It critically reviews international law governing nuclear weapons with regard to the inter-state use of force, international humanitarian law, human rights law, disarmament law, and environmental law, and discusses where relevant the International Court of Justice's 1996 Advisory Opinion. Unique in its approach, it draws upon contributions from expert legal scholars and international law practitioners who have worked with conventional and non-conventional arms control and disarmament issues. As a result, this book embraces academic consideration of legal questions within the context of broader political debates about the status of nuclear weapons under international law.
Author | : Herbert Feis |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2015-03-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1400868262 |
This book discusses the decision to use the atomic bomb. Libraries and scholars will find it a necessary adjunct to their other studies by Pulitzer-Prize author Herbert Feis on World War II. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.