Catalogue description Report of a course given to university physics lecturers at the Civil Defence Staff...

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Details of HO 228/21
Reference: HO 228/21
Description:

Report of a course given to university physics lecturers at the Civil Defence Staff College 8-11 July 1957: nuclear weapons and their effects; blast from nuclear weapons; thermal radiation; biological effects of nuclear radiation; radiological control in the damaged area; control of civil defence forces; protection afforded by buildings against gamma radiation from fallout; Meteorological aspects of radioactive fallout; fallout plotting; public control in a fallout area; introductory talk on fallout plotting; problems of water contamination; effects of nuclear weapon attack on agriculture and food; radiological decontamination; trends in radiac instrumentation; radiac fallout simulator; assessment of the protection afforded by buildings against gamma radiation from fallout
Date: 1957
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Z 21
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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