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The Effects of Nuclear Weapons

Author(s) -

Samuel Glasstone

Publication year - 1957

Publication title -

osti oai (u.s. department of energy office of scientific and technical information)

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Reports

DOI - 10.2172/972900

Subject(s) - nuclear weapon , commission , government (linguistics) , political science , scaling law , limit (mathematics) , law , scaling , physics , nuclear engineering , computer security , law and economics , engineering , computer science , sociology , philosophy , mathematics , linguistics , geometry , mathematical analysis

This handbook prepared by the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project of the Department of Defense in coordination with other cognizant government agencies and published by the United States Atomic Energy Commission, is a comprehensive summary of current knowledge on the effects of nuclear weapons. The effects information contained herein is calculated for yields up to 20 megatons and the scaling laws for hypothetically extending the calculations beyond this limit are given. The figure of 20 megatons however is not be taken as an indication of capabilities or developments

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