Nuclear Disaster Preparedness and Civil Defense

"Includes discussion of the history of fallout at the 1951 Greenhouse-Dog test (the fallout was audible on Parry Island, Eniwetok Atoll), Dr Kimura's discovery of the uranium-237 produced by high energy neutrons by the (n,2n) nuclear reaction in the Castle-Bravo fallout on the unfortunate Japanese tuna trawler, "Lucky Dragon 5", and the political "fallout" effect in Japan when in 1954 two days before the Mutual Security Agreement between Japan and America was due to be signed (following the cessation of the Korean War in 1953). Also discusses how American secrecy on the fallout nature, countermeasures and phenomenology and the H-bomb fallout creation mechanism caused a general backlash against nuclear and radiation physics generally beginning in 1954 and continuing ever since then due to media scare-mongering to sell papers and TV shows and to market the kind of 1930s political "peace through disarmament" and anti-science weapons effects exaggerations which appeased Hitler, causing WWII. Also notes that the reduced total yield of the nuclear stockpile even in 1967 was due to more accurate delivery systems (missiles) which needed smaller warheads, than it was due to lying weapons effects exaggerating disarmament propaganda." --archive.org

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