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Second printing of the true first edition - published as a paperback original (PBO). There was also a hardcover issue aimed mainly at public libraries. Both issues are scarce. ***A very good copy in illustrated glossy card covers. Edges of covers slightly rubbed and creased, mainly to the bottom corner of the back cover. No reading creases to the spine. No tears. The original Basil Blackwell £4.95 price sticker is affixed to the back cover, as is another sticker. Both could be removed if so wished. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also very good, with a neat contemporary ownership inscription - '29, Gardiner Street, Oxford Gill Dec 83' - at the top of the first page. There is some sporadic foxing to the top and fore edge of the page block, and some very light foxing to the first and last few pages. Internally the pages are clean. No tears or creases. ***296 pages including Appendices, Notes and Index at the back of the book. 228mm x 150mm. ***Contents: Acknowledgements, 1. Introduction, 2. Nuclear Strategies, 3. Possible Nuclear Wars, 4. Soviet Weapons and their Targets, 5. Patterns of Nuclear Attack, 6. Estimating the Effects of Attack, 7. Immediate Casualties and Damage, 8. The aftermath of attack, 9. Home Office Calculations of the Effects of Attack, 10. Civil Defence and its Effectiveness, Appendices, Notes, Index. ***'It is almost nine hundred years since "Domesday". If Britain were to be conquered again, this time with nuclear weapons, what would be the conditions of its land, how many people might be left living, and what would the conquerors find? These are the questions this new "doomsday" book sets out to answer. It is the first full, public account of the effects of a nuclear attack on Britain. The authors describe the types and numbers of Soviet nuclear weapons and the kinds of targets - military, industrial, civilian - against which the weapons might be directed. They construct a series of patterns of attack (including a retaliatory strike by Russia after most of their weapons have been destroyed) and show the consequences of each in death, injury and damage. Computer programs developed especially for this book allow them to predict the effects in detail for every town and county. ***"Doomsday" is a work of science in that all assumptions, methods and sources are full and explicit. But it is also controversial: its findings, for example, are radically at odds with official Home Office predictions. ***"Doomsday" exposes facts that have hitherto been unavailable, possibly suppressed. Discussion of the real issues of nuclear defence and warfare simply isn't possible without them.' (Quotes taken from the back cover) ***A second printing of the true first edition of this book - published as a paperback original. All editions of this book are scarce. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
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