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A Comparative Analysis of Some of the Immediate Environmental Effects at Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Description: 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.
Date: August 1964
Creator: White, Clayton S.; Bowen, I. Gerald & Richmond, Donald R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Comparative Nuclear Effects of Biomedical Interest

Description: Report containing environmental consequences of nuclear explosions with a primary focus on early effects such as exposure to blasts and radiation. Includes definitions of terms, the progression of an explosion, and graphs depicting the relationship between the effects of blasts and the distance of material from Ground Zero.
Date: September 1960
Creator: White, Clayton S.; Bowen, I. Gerald; Richmond, Donald R. & Corsbie, Robert L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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