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THE MEDICINE OF NUCLEAR WARFARE

The Lancet, 1981
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Reflections on nuclear warfare

Neurosurgery, 1983
The author looks back on his more than 70 years of familiarity with Americans involved in warfare, noting their loyal support for our country's objectives. Drawing on the Einstein equation, his own visits to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and current literature, he, as a physician, belatedly concurs with those who look on the use of nuclear weapons as ...
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Missile Warfare and Nuclear Weapons

2022
Abstract Since the Second World War, missiles have replaced manned aircraft as the most effective means of delivery for a warhead because they offer long-range precision strike without exposing a pilot to enemy fire. Technology has increased the range and performance of cruise, ballistic, and hypersonic missiles at the same time ...
James Kraska, Raul Pedrozo
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Communist China and Nuclear Warfare

The China Quarterly, 1960
The Chinese Communists, on coming to power, were confronted with a set of strategic problems totally new to them. No longer a mobile force operating from the countryside, they were after 1949 in control of cities, and were rapidly developing a vested interest in industrial complexes, communication centres, and transportation facilities.
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The Health Physicist in Nuclear Warfare

Health Physics, 1961
Radiation sources presented by fall-out or by neutroninduced activity from nuclear weapons may present a hazard different from that considered in industrial health physics. In order to be of maximum assistance under emergency conditions, the health physicist must be familiar with large area, mixed isotope sources and be ready to consider the acute ...
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Environmental Impact of Nuclear Warfare

Environmental Conservation, 1981
Uncertainty may exist about the future likelihood of nuclear war. On the other hand, no doubt exists that nuclear weapons must be eliminated from the arsenals of the world. Even the most modest and restrained nuclear initiative by one belligerent could well be countered in kind, this in turn perhaps leading to an escalating exchange.
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Nuclear, biological and chemical warfare. Part I: Medical aspects of nuclear warfare.

The Journal of the Association of Physicians of India, 1990
Casualties in earlier wars were due much more to diseases than to weapons. Mention has been made in history of the use of biological agents in warfare, to deny the enemy food and water and to cause disease. In the first world war chemical agents were used to cause mass casualties. Nuclear weapons were introduced in the second world war.
A S, Kasthuri, A B, Pradhan, S K, Dham, I P, Bhalla, J S, Paul   +4 more
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The Nature of Nuclear Warfare

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1957
(1957). The Nature of Nuclear Warfare. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 162-165.
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The American Nuclear Warfare State

2016
At the end of World War II, the atomic breakthrough signified for the USA an awesome spectacle of technological prowess and military superiority, confirming unique American status on the international scene. Although world opinion generally viewed the Bomb as an instrument of barbarism, for US leaders it would be embraced as a benevolent source of ...
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Molecular imaging in oncology: Current impact and future directions

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2022
Steven P Rowe, Martin G Pomper
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