Nuclear War I and Other Major Nuclear Disasters of the 20th Century
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Author(s)Samuel Upton Newtan
PublisherAuthorHouse
ISBN / ASIN1425985106
ISBN-139781425985103
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Sales Rank3,280,919
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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During the 20th century, hundreds of thousands of people died from the use of nuclear weapons in Nuclear War I and other nuclear disasters. Â Dr. Newtan's book describes the disastrous consequences of the following nuclear developments all of which occurred in the 20th century: Â The Trinity Test of a nuclear device (explosion). Â The destruction of Hiroshima by a uranium bomb. Â The destruction of Nagasaki by a plutonium bomb. Â The hydrogen bomb, neutron bomb, and cobalt bomb. Â Radioactive fallout. Â Radiological weapons. Â The BRAVO Test (hydrogen bomb). Â Three Mile Island nuclear reactor disaster. Â Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster. Â Fermi I breeder reactor disaster. Â Nuclear submarine disasters (U.S., U.S.S.R.). Â Thresher nuclear submarine disaster. Â Scorpion nuclear submarine disaster. Â Nuclear satellite disasters. Â Lost nuclear weapons. Â Lost nuclear fissile materials for weapons. Â Nuclear waste disasters. Â Acts of war on nuclear facilities. Â Nuclear terrorism. Â Proliferation of nuclear weapons. Â Nuclear reactors in space. Â Nuclear weapons in space. Â Nuclear waste - can it be safely stored for millennia?