The Effects of Nuclear Weapons
date: label: date made
content: 1962
label: date received
content: 2005
name: label: maker
content: Glasstone, Samuel
notes: label: Description
content: The citation information for this paperback book is: Samuel Glasstone, ed., <i>The Effects of Nuclear Weapons</i>, rev. ed., a special report prepared at the request of the Department of Defense and published by the Atomic Energy Commission (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1962).
label: Description
content: In order to anticipate the physical damage and personal injuries that would result from a nuclear attack, and thus to encourage emergency responders and public officials to prepare themselves, numerous federal agencies joined together in 1957 to release information about the energy released in a nuclear explosion. An updated report was completed in 1962. Chemist and technical writer Samuel Glasstone (1897–1986) guided both efforts, as well as a third revision (with Philip J. Dolan) that appeared in 1977.
label: Description
content: The 1962 edition has a pocket at the back for a Nuclear Bomb Effects Computer, a circular slide rule that allowed users to make computations of blast effects, given various combinations of conditions based on data from the book. The pocket in this copy has an instruction sheet but not the instrument, which sold separately for $1.00 in addition to the book's price of $3.00. See 1990.0688.01 for a computer received from another source.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Mexico, Los Alamos
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Rule, Calculating
label: Subject
content: Nuclear War
label: Subject
content: Government
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Slide Rules
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Morton I. Goldman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.3113.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 2005.3113
label: catalog number
content: 2005.3113.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 cm x 15 cm x 23.4 cm; 1 3/16 in x 5 29/32 in x 9 7/32 in