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- A Comparative Analysis of Some of the Immediate Environmental Effects at Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Report regarding the medical and environmental effects caused by the nuclear weapons that were detonated in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945. Includes studies of wave overpressure and three tiers of blast lethality.
- An Experimental Investigation of the Spatial Distribution of Dose in an Air-Over-Ground Geometry
- Report containing results of a study that sought to measure the intensification of radiation at various distances from point sources.
- Aeroradioactivity Survey and Areal Geology of Parts of East-Central New York and West-Central New England (ARMS-I)
- Report concerning "[a]n airborne gamma-radiation survey of Connecticut, Rhode Island, and parts of New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont" (p. 5) made between 1958 and 1960 that indicated that a broad range of radioactivity exists in those areas depending on the type of bedrock. Correlations are drawn between this radioactivity and the geology of the region.
- Plate 1. Aeroradioactivity of East-Central New York and West-Central New England
- Map with graded color shading to show levels of naturally-occurring gamma aeroradioactivity within the New England region of the U.S. Details about the survey and map creation are printed at right. Scale 1:250,000.
- Methods and Techniques of Fallout Studies Using a Particulate Simulant
- From Abstract: "These data are important for personnel protection on a national basis in the event of war and on a local basis in the event of certain types of nuclear accidents. This report discusses the need for such information and suggests methods for obtaining it."