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Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War: Some Perspectives

U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

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Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War: Some Perspectives | U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
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Book Overview: 

This is a concise yet thorough explanation of what might happen to our world in the aftermath of a nuclear war. The myriad of potential effects will be global and wide-spread, and the potentials are glazed over in this short work.

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. . .Japanese fishing vessel Lucky Dragon, some 90 miles downwind of the burst point, and Rongelap Atoll, 100 miles downwind. Though 40 to 50 miles away from the proscribed test area, the vessel's crew and the islanders received heavy doses of radiation from the weapon's "fallout"--the coral rock, soil, and other debris sucked up in the fireball and made intensively radioactive by the nuclear reaction. One radioactive isotope in the fallout, iodine-131, rapidly built up to serious concentration in the thyroid glands of the victims, particularly young Rongelapese children.

More than any other event in the decade of testing large nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, Castle/Bravo's unexpected contamination of 7,000 square miles of the Pacific Ocean dramatically illustrated how large-scale nuclear war could produce casualties on a colossal scale, far beyond the local effects of blast and fire alone.

A number of other surprises were encountered during 30 y. . . Read More

Community Reviews

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- R. - Feb 07, 2017

Published in the 1970s . . . 75 if I recall correctly. This is a good primer for learning about Nuclear weapons of various sizes and the effects on the environment as well as the people who could be effected should Nuclear War ever occur. It's worth noting that much of this is still relevant in my m

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- Julia - Aug 18, 2021

This work was really too short to get much info. Everything is very top level and it does not go into a lot of detail. This is good if you know general science, but nothing the topic.

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- Devon - Aug 28, 2011

Very informative but a little more detail would have been great

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- Nick - Mar 15, 2017

Very concise set of information. Not particularly well written. Rather ordinary and dry. But a good short intro on everything related to nuclear weapons and their effects. Its pretty horrifying, but even after reading this I still think that it would be very difficult for nuclear weapons to actually

2.00
- Luís - Nov 24, 2016

(lido em Chengdu, China)

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- Nolan Hughes - Dec 26, 2014

Good quick read

I am someone who has read a couple books on nuclear fission. I have a half dozen books at home on nuclear bomb books. All of them are 300+of books. I took three or four physics courses in college. So this book was stuff I kind of knew but was bored the day after Christmas & just wante

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