Atom bomb (4 risultati)
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Da: Aragon Books Canada, OTTAWA, ON, CanadaAragon Books Canada
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Condizione: New.
Editore: John Murray (Publishers) Ltd, London, 1994
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Da: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, CanadaJ. Wyatt Books
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Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. 1st UK Edition. 301 pages in near fine condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with a section of black and white plates in the center of the book. Bound in black hardcovers with gilt titles on the spine. Black dustjacket in near fine condition. Lightly worn around the edges. 1ST UK ED…ITION. SCARCE. NF/NF. Book.
[British civil defence, 1950.] Autograph Notebook, with 'G. Reeves Atom' on cover, containing notes made at civil defence meetings (Home Office, Army or Fire Brigade?) in preparation for nuclear and biological warfare.
G. Reeves [Home Secretary Planning Committee, Regional Office, Div, S/DO; Fire Services; British 1950s civil defence; nuclear war; atom bomb; biological warfare; atomic warfare]
Editore: London. Notes made at meetings between 30 March to 25 June, 1951
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Da: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Regno UnitoRichard M. Ford Ltd
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Aggiungi al carrello37pp., 12mo (including two irrelevant pages at the rear), of pencil notes, with some diagrams. In a spiral-bound 'No. 430 Reporter's Note Book' by Brown Knight & Truscott, Ltd, London. In good condition, lightly aged and worn. On cover: 'G. Reeves Atom'. The notes were made at meetings or lectures held at roughly fortnightly int…ervals. (The last page records 'No meetings' on 9 and 23 June.) Topics include: 'Types of Shelter', 'Refuge Room', 'Long range rocket', 'Antipersonnel Bomb' ('When a bomb is found a red flag in a stick is to be placed 3 paces to the North so that B[omb]. Dis[posal] Off[icer]. knows that the bomb is 3 paces south'), 'Chem Warfare' (including 'Persistent Gases', 'Blister Gas', 'Nerve Gas', 'Choking Gases'), 'Protection from High Explosive', 'Effect of Atom Bomb' (including 'Gum-ache'), 'Tear Gas', 'Gas proofing a room', 'Decontamination' ('Roads Bleach is the stuff. | Walls. Bleach paste & slosh it on the walls & then hose down Furniture. Carpets weather them & also curtains.'). The notebook begin with the proposed organisational structure: 'Region SE Kent Sussex Surrey | Home Secty Planning Come. F. Services | 11 Regions Regional Comme. | (County C. & County Boro.) SE | Operationally direct to Reg Come. | Region to be split up into Zones | SE = 3 Zones - Surrey Sx & Kent with Zone Controller | Z Controller subdivided into Sub Zones (Query T.W., T. , T. , & Southboro) | Sub Zone Commander | Local Areas | 6 Sections H. Qtr. Controll [sic] Centre. | Wardens | Rescue Squad Ambulance | Pioneer Corps (Decontamination) | Welfare Corps | Home Secty. Plan Come., Regional O, Div, S/DO | C D Watkin | Full time 8 hr a day. | 2nd Line Civil Mobile Force | Target Area | 5 Part 1 11 Part 2 | Course K'. The first dated notes begin: 'Friday Mch 30th 7.30 (Atom Bomb): 19.2.51 | 1 3/4 galls water in 1 min | No 1 Fighter has nozzle will go in & fight fire. Other 3 with water all must be resolute | No 2. will pump. "Water on" No 2 must never leave off pumping. | No 3. Looks after No 1 & No 2 Keeps & maintains contact with No 1 & helps No 2 by filling pails. No 4 looks after No 2 & No 3 | assists No 3 with filling water. | Changing over No 4 with No 2 important | No 3 changes over with No 1. (No 1 & 3. No 2 & 4.) | No 1. inspects fire. "Water here!" | length of hose, seat of fire & least dangerous position | "Water on!" | "Water off!" = Stop pumping only | "Knock off & make up!" [.]'.
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Da: Max Rambod Inc, Woodland Hills, CA, U.S.A.Max Rambod Inc
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Aggiungi al carrelloBaltimore News Post, August 24, 1945, reports Japanese claims that radiation from the atomic bombings continued to kill thousands, preserving an early American newspaper presentation of effects that remained poorly understood and publicly contested immediately after the war. Published eighteen days after Hiroshima, fifteen days…after Nagasaki, and ten days after Japan accepted Allied surrender terms, the issue supports research into the emergence of the atomic age, wartime casualty reporting, American interpretations of Japanese information, and the press's initial vocabulary for radiation sickness. The United States had used atomic bombs against Hiroshima on August 6 and Nagasaki on August 9, killing tens of thousands and leaving survivors exposed to injuries and radiation whose full consequences were not yet established in American public discourse. Baltimore News Post. Baltimore, Maryland. August 24, 1945. Front page dominated by the large banner headline above the masthead: "ATOMIC BOMB RAYS KILL THOUSANDS, JAPS CLAIM." Its use of "rays" records the uncertain terminology through which newspapers initially communicated deaths occurring after the blasts, while the attribution to Japanese claims demonstrates the skepticism with which such reports could be framed. American military officials subsequently disputed or minimized early accounts of lethal residual radiation before investigative teams documented its medical consequences. A small front-page photograph of General Douglas MacArthur connects the atomic-bomb report to the approaching Allied occupation: President Harry S. Truman had designated MacArthur Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers on August 14, and MacArthur would soon oversee Japan's formal surrender and postwar administration. Appearing between Japan's announcement of surrender and the formal ceremony aboard the USS Missouri on September 2, the issue captures the compressed interval in which American readers confronted both the immediate human consequences of nuclear warfare and the transfer of Japan from wartime enemy to occupied nation. The headline is particularly significant as evidence of how reports of radiation mortality entered mass circulation before extensive Western observation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and before later press accounts described radiation sickness in greater detail. Complete page count and dimensions were not supplied and are therefore not assigned. Minor expected handling wear, with the bold headline and MacArthur portrait remaining clear; very good overall. A visually forceful record of the first weeks of nuclear-age reporting and the uncertain public understanding of atomic radiation at the close of World War II.
