Most of what has ever been available in the open literature about the effects of nuclear weapons was available in the 1962 and 1964 editions of this gem of a book. A nuclear weapon is a explosive device that uses a controlled uncontrolled nuclear chain reacon to release huge amounts of energy. Since the last version of the effects of nuclear weapons was prepared, much new information has become available concerning nuclear weapons effects. Principles of nuclear reactor engineering by samuel glasstone, with the assistance of the following ornl staff members. The effects of nuclear weapons by glasstone abebooks.
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Effects of nuclear weapons jhsph center for health security. Effects of nuclear weapons by samuel glasstone editor. These models are intended to provide researchers and analysts outside of the defense complex with a better means of understanding nuclear weapons effects. Dolan third edition prepared and published by the united states department of defense and the energy research and development administration loose leaf of 1977 edition samuel glasstone philip j. This book is a revision of the effects of nuclear weapons which was issued in 1957.
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Realistic effects and credible nuclear weapon capabilities for deterring or stopping aggressive invasions and attacks which could escalate into major conventional or nuclear wars. Python library for nuclear weapons effects arms control. See all 14 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. All of these models were used by the american or soviet militaries for planning purposes during the cold war. This library provides a selection of operational nuclear weapons effects models implemented in python using numpy and scipy. The atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki by the manhattan engineer district 1946, the effects of nuclear war, worldwide effects of nuclear war by u. Atomic energy commission, 1962, also by united states. Nuclear weapons are fundamentally different from conventional weapons because of the vast amounts of explosive energy they can release and the kinds of effects they produce, such as high temperatures and radiation. Samuel glasstone may 3, 1897 nov 16, 1986 authored over 40 popular textbooks on physical chemistry, reaction rates, nuclear weapons effects, nuclear reactor engineering, mars, space sciences, the environmental effects of nuclear energy and nuclear testing. Books by samuel glasstone author of the effects of. Samuel glasstone has 21 books on goodreads with 520 ratings. The results are often and a conventional explosion, including dependent on circumstances which are the tremendously greater power of the difficult, if not impossible, to control, former, that the effects of nuclear even in a test and certainly cannot be. Buy effects of nuclear weapons by samuel glasstone editor online at alibris.
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The effects of nuclear weapons underground shelters usa. The prompt effects of a nuclear explosion and fallout are well known through data gathered from the attacks on hiroshima and nagasaki, japan. The 1977 third edition the most recent version of this publication was scanned by the program in science and global security of the woodrow wilson school of public and international affairs at princeton university into a collection of bitmap pdf files which were linked to a web page. Residual nuclear radiation and fallout sources of residual radiation introduction highenergy neutrons are produced \\\ j. The effects of nuclear weapons by samuel glasstone and philip j. Glasstonenuclear weapons effects modelling in python. Compiled and edited by samuel glasstone and philip j.
Later works, even including later versions of this book, are more noteworthy for what got taken out than for what, if anything, got added. The book covers the effects of nuclear weapons, so do not expect any details on how exactly a nuclear weapon works. Perhaps his best known book, coauthored with philip j. An introduction to nuclear weapons, which was published in 1962, 1963. Contains a vital civil defense chapter 12, principles of protection, which was omitted from the final 1977 edition. We have several hard copies of this book in our own libraries.
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