Nuclear Weapons and Explosions: Environmental Impacts and other Effects

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"Nuclear Weapons and Explosions –Environmental Impacts and other Effects" is a unique book in terms of coverage, scope, elaboration, usefulness and futuristic prospective. It covers the subject area of major impacts of nuclear weapons and explosions in its totality and gives a detailed fat sheet on nuclear weapons accidents. A nuclear weapons derived its destructive force from nuclear reactions of fission or fusion, thus making even a nuclear weapon with a relatively small yield significantly more powerful than the largest conventional explosives. Consequently, a single weapon is capable of destroying an entire city like Hiroshima. Nuclear explosives have been tested and used for various non-militaty uses. Nuclear explosions produce both immediate and delayed destructive effects such as blasts and radioactive fallouts. The impacts and injuries caused by nuclear blasts and resulting radiation effects causing cancer, congenital defects, mental retardation, immune destruction, cancer, stillbirths and other health problems is discussed in detail. Besides the blast and radiation damage from individual bombs, a large scale nuclear exchange between nations could conceivably have a catastrophic global effect on climate and pollute vast amounts of soil and water. Te book is divided into seven chapters and is a must read and addition for all concerned with nuclear safety.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR M.S. Yadav

Dr. M.S. Yadav has been educated at various places and has been associated either as a student or as a teacher with a number of universities of Northern India. A graduate from Panjab University, Chandigarh and an M.Sc. from Panjabi University, Poatiala, he has obtained his Ph.D. from Meerut University, Meerut. He carried research work at Delhi University and published a number of research papers in international journals. He has more than 35 Years of teaching experience. He has taught at various colleges affiliated to Punjab University, Chandigarh, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra and MD University, Rohtak. He had been a member of Academic Council of MD University, Rohtak and associated with curriculum development for university classes under the COSIP programme. Dr. M.S. Yadav is the author of some widely acclaimed textbooks. His contribution to certain reputed journals is appreciable.

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Title
Nuclear Weapons and Explosions: Environmental Impacts and other Effects
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8189741495
Length
xxxii+335p., Tables; Figures; Bibliography; Index; 23cm.
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