The Effects of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Chairman's Office 30 June 194
Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1946. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. v, [1], 46, [4] pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Maps. Two large fold-out maps. Ex-library with the usual markings. Some cover wear/discoloration. Some page discoloration. Among the officers of the Strategic Bombing Survey during its Japanese phase were Paul Nitze, and John Kenneth Galbraith. The Strategic Bombing Survey was established in November 1944 to establish a basis for evaluating the importance and potentialities of air power as an instrument of military strategy, for planning the future development of the U.S. armed forces, and for determining future economic policies with respect to the national defense. The use of atomic bombs on Japan provided added significance to the work of the Survey in Japan. The directors of the Strategic Bombing Survey decided to examine exhaustively the effects of the atomic bombs, in order that the full impact on Japan and the implications of their results could be confidently analyzed. Teams of experts were selected to study the scenes of the bombings from the special points of emphasis of physical damage, civilian defense, morale, casualties, community life, utilities and transportation, various industries, and the general economic and political repercussions. In all, more than 110 men – engineers, architects, fire experts, economists, doctors, photographers, draftsmen – participated in the field study at each city, over a period of ten weeks from October to December, 1945. Condition: Fair.
Keywords: Atomic Bombs, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Strategic Bombing, Nuclear Weapons, Bomb Damage, Damage Assessment, Radiation Disease, Civil Defense
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