The Effects of Atomic Weapons

Washington: GPO, 1950. "Revised September 1950". Small quarto in offwhite printed wraps; x, 456 pages illustrations. Foot-notes, partly bibliographical About very good+ with minors wear to exterior. Hand-written Washington, DC street address in red ink to front wrapper verso. . Paperback.

Presentation copy. Signed by numerous contributors & editors: Signed by Richard Bambach on front cover and again by him "with compliments" on title page. Signed by all five Board of Editors, beneath their printed names, also on title page: Hirschfelder, Kramish, Parker, Smith and Glasstone; by Los Alamos Scientifc Laboratory's then Director, Norris E. Bradbury on title page verso statement of operations (Univ. of Calif.); by Director of Civilian Mobilization Office Director Paul J. Larsen on top pf his printed statement toprelim; by contributor R. Reine three times, after his printed name to Acknowledgment page; and, lastly, initialed, three or four times by members of the Board of Editors at end of acknowledgments page, over their printed names. A unique and very special presentation copy. Atomic bomb. Radiation. Nuclear Weapons. Effets des rayonnements. Guerre nucléaire. Atomic bomb. Biophysics