[ RadSafe ] Nuclear Power Plant Effluents / EMP, "Nuclear War Survival Skills "

[howard long]

"Nuclear War Survival Skills" by Cresson Kearny, upated 1987, 1999 addendum on Hormesis, Foreword by Edward Teller, 282pp "may be reproduced without obtaining permission from anyone" is available online free (hard cc $19.75 delivered) at www.oism.org/nwss I gave copies to all my family members. It is fascinating to campers and well illustrated.
 
Howard Long MD MPH director Doctors for Disaster Preparedness 

John Jacobus <crispy_bird at yahoo.com> wrote:
The Glasstone of "The Effects of Nuclear Weapons" fame
is Samuel Glasstone. He also wrote "Handbook on
Atomic Energy," third edition (1967) and "Nuclear
Reactor Engineering" (1967).

--- Franz Schönhofer 
wrote:

> John,
> 
> "The Effects of Nuclear Weapons" was in the old days
> a kind of "bible"
> for anybody who was involved in protection from
> nuclear bomb effects and
> fallout also in Europe. During my short compulsory
> military duty I
> shocked the instructors (at very low scientific
> level if at any at all)
> by citing from this book, showing them that the
> official training was
> wrong. 
> 
> In the course of time I had to question some of the
> findings, the most
> important being the distribution of radionuclides.
> The book did not at
> all consider meteorological conditions like rain.
> From the Chernobyl
> accident we drastically learnt that clouds of
> radionuclides may
> contaminate an area, but only rain will convert this
> into a serious
> problem or even a disaster. 
> 
> The scenarios as I remember them are rather
> outdated, which is not to
> downplay the importance of this book. Since it is
> from 1977 I wonder
> whether anything similar, but updated to the 21st
> century and current
> nuclear weapons exists? 
> 
> An almost off topic question: During my studies in
> chemistry I had in
> the 70's a book of "Glasstone" on Physical
> Chemistry. I used it to
> understand first of all Physical Chemistry and then
> went to the other
> books which I would not have understood without
> "Glasstone". Is it the
> same person? 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Franz
> 
> 
> Franz Schoenhofer
> PhD, MR iR
> Habicherg. 31/7
> A-1160 Vienna
> AUSTRIA
> phone -43-0699-1168-1319
> 
> 
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl
> [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] Im
> > Auftrag von John Jacobus
> > Gesendet: Freitag, 25. Februar 2005 17:05
> > An: radsafe at radlab.nl
> > Betreff: RE: [ RadSafe ] Nuclear Power Plant
> Effluents / EMP
> > 
> > There is an on-line version of "The Effects of
> Nuclear
> > Weapons" at
> >
>
http://www.princeton.edu/~globsec/publications/effects/effects.shtml
> > Each chapter is a pdf file.
> > 
> > You used to be able to obtain a copy from
> > http://www.survivalring.org/cd-femabooks.htm
> > Scroll about half-way down the page.
> > 
> 
> 
> 


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DR. PETER BEILENSON, the city's health commissioner.

-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail: crispy_bird at yahoo.com

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