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1960rif. 85542Princeton New Jersey: Princeton University Press 1960. First Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's terracotta cloth titled and ruled in black and gilt to spine. Dustjacket. xx; 651pp. Very light wear and bumping to spine ends and extremities strong and bright; internally clean and fresh; in a grey dustjacket with some minor edgewear and shallow chipping to the spine ends and edges a hint of toning to the spine panel and some light soiling and wear to the white rear panel. A very good handsome copy indeed. Kahn's deeply influential analysis of the spectre of thermonuclear war partly intended as a counterpoint to von Neumann's apocalyptic concept of MAD or Mutually Assured Destruction. Kahn posits the strategic possibility of a 'winnable' nuclear conflict questions the solidity of a peace structure based on thermonuclear threat and makes the highly controversial for the time suggestion that the spectre of thermonuclear conflict itself isn't actually that terrifying and that the spectre of it is really what most people get worked up about. Kahn is an analytical strategist his conclusions are based in a zone in which emotion only plays the smallest part and upon publication the book elicited some powerful reactions from readers uncomfortable with the potential at the time inevitable deaths of millions being presented in the form of graphs and calm inexorable strategic detachment. Hubert Humphrey's contemporary review of the work stated "New thoughts particularly those which contradict current assumptions are always painful for the human mind to contemplate. On Thermonuclear War is filled with such thoughts." Perhaps as inevitable antidote to the grimly sardonic nature of his analysis Kahn's work earned him a place in the eternal halls of pop culture being the impromptu scriptwriter for the character of General Buck Turgidson in "Dr. Strangelove" and with popular understanding of his theories featuring prominently in fiction from Tom Clancy to "Wargames." Kahn is also credited with the coining of the phrases "Megadeath" as a unit of fatality and "Wargasm" describing the focus of the military personnel he worked with both of which have seeped into common usage. Kahn's borderline crude delivery combining horrifying statistics with jokes about how women will come to love their two-headed babies was deliberately jarring and intended to be equally disruptive to those locked in fearful uninformed paralysis and those working towards the wargasm. The reception of his book was one of the catalyzing elements that led Kahn to be a co-founder of The Hudson Institute after his work at RAND reached its inevitable close. Regardless of how divisive Kahn was both in theory and delivery "On Thermonuclear War" ranks as one of the most important 20th century works of strategic analysis right down to the title being an updated and expanded nod to von Clausewitz's "On War. Princeton University Press unknown books
1961rif. 61500N.p. New York: Carl C. Burns 1961. Offset broadside 11" x 8-1/2"; text printed in black on thin wove paper. Heavy stains verso bleeding through to recto conspicuous but not affecting legibility of text. Just Good. Dated at end of text August 1961. A resounding evangelical response to the threat of nuclear war published a few months after the Bay of Pigs Invasion during the build-up of Soviet nuclear defenses in Cuba. The author who signs himself "Carl C. Burns B.D. and Front Line Soldier" promises that New York City "will be in flames" and asks "not what but Who is your defense" Burns cites several lines of scripture to make clear his message that only God may be counted on to protect citizens from the flaming hell of nuclear war. Not separately catalogued in OCLC. We note one other copy recorded in commerce D. Anthem Bookseller Dec. 2021 but can find no contemporary references to the author whose hysteria no doubt spoke for millions. Carl C. Burns unknown books
1963rif. 239921963. A 1963 U.S. Air Force and General Dynamics study addressing one of the fundamental hazards of early nuclear spaceflight: what would happen to an orbiting nuclear reactor and its fuel during an uncontrolled return through the Earth's atmosphere. Prepared by R. W. Andrews of the Advanced Technology Laboratory General Dynamics/Astronautics for the Air Force Weapons Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base the report develops scaling methods for modeling the heating structural failure and dispersal of nuclear fuel elements under reentry conditions. Its November 1963 date places the work during active American development of SNAP era space nuclear systems shortly before the 1965 launch of SNAP 10A the first U.S. nuclear reactor placed in orbit when the fate of reactor fuel during unsuccessful missions had become a defined aerospace safety problem. Andrews R. W. Re Entry and Disposal Phenomena for Nuclear Auxiliary Power Systems: The Scaling of Processes of Significance in the Re Entry of Nuclear Fuel Elements. Kirtland Air Force Base New Mexico: Research and Technology Division Air Force Systems Command Air Force Weapons Laboratory 1963. Technical Documentary Report RTD TDR 63 3002. Prepared under Contract No. AF29601 5893 by the Advanced Technology Laboratory General Dynamics/Astronautics San Diego California. 39 pages. 8.5 x 11 inches. The abstract states that the study formulates model scaling laws for physical phenomena associated with "re entry and dispersal of the debris from an orbiting nuclear reactor or power source" specifically addressing tumbling and free fall aerodynamic heating thermal stresses and temperature gas desorption and expansion in homogeneous solids. Andrews develops prototype scale trajectories for spheres and tumbling rods examines aerodynamic heating under hypersonic flight and ground test conditions and considers transient heating degassing and stresses produced in homogeneous materials. The publication review leaf bears manuscript approval signatures of project and USAF personnel while the foreword acknowledges discussions with specialists associated with General Dynamics/Astronautics and the Air Force program. This copy preserves extensive institutional use evidence: an "AEROTHERM LIBRARY" stamp "RECEIVED OCT 19 1966" stamp "KEEP PUNCHED" marking accession number 021594 project and task fields adhesive classification or routing labels and manuscript report numbers and shelf annotations across the front wrapper. The report belongs to the period in which American space nuclear engineering had to address not only reactor performance in orbit but the consequences of launch failure orbital decay and uncontrolled return through the atmosphere. Reentry engineering required proving through scaled ground tests that nuclear fuel elements robust enough for launch and operation would nevertheless heat fragment melt or disperse predictably during atmospheric return. Moderate toning and handling wear to wrappers with institutional stamps labels and manuscript markings as described; interior leaves generally clean with light age toning. Overall good condition. A technical record of the effort to make the destruction and atmospheric behavior of nuclear spacecraft components calculable before nuclear power systems entered operational use in orbit. unknown books
1970rif. 237601970. Salem Nuclear Power Plant photo archive 1970s documenting the construction and interior control infrastructure of Public Service Electric and Gas Company's nuclear generating complex at Lower Alloways Creek New Jersey on the Delaware River. Contemporary press material dated July 23 1979 describes construction proceeding on a facility planned as the largest nuclear power plant east of the Mississippi River with two generating units nearing completion and a third in the planning stages. The photographs move between the enormous physical plant required to generate nuclear power and the enclosed control environment from which technicians monitored and operated its systems recording nuclear generation as an engineered network of reactor buildings instrumentation communications equipment operators and centralized oversight. Photo archive of six silver gelatin and color photographs ranging from approximately 5 x 7 to 8 x 10 inches Lower Alloways Creek New Jersey 1970s. Black and white exterior views show the Salem complex under construction along the Delaware River with massive domed reactor containment buildings rising amid cranes scaffolding temporary structures service buildings construction equipment utility poles and extensive surrounding works. The photographs record the scale of the site from elevated viewpoints placing the containment structures within the larger industrial landscape necessary to support them. The color photographs move inside the facility to a control room dominated by long banks of panels containing gauges indicator lights switches displays annunciators telephones and other monitoring and communications equipment. Operators sit at desks and consoles facing walls of instrumentation while another view looks along a control room wall equipped with additional panels and communications devices. A close photograph records a dedicated equipment cabinet containing dual reel to reel tape mechanisms speakers meters switches and related electronic controls showing another component of the communications and recording apparatus integrated into the room. One exterior press photograph retains a typed Associated Press caption identifying the site as the "Salem nuclear plant" at Lower Alloways Creek and stating that two generating units were nearing completion while a third remained planned. The archive records two sides of nuclear power construction that were normally separated in public views of generating stations with the monumental concrete and steel structures visible from outside and the dense instrumentation through which the completed plant would be supervised from within. The July 23 1979 press text explicitly frames Salem through scale describing three planned generating units and identifying the complex as the projected largest nuclear power plant east of the Mississippi River while the photographs establish the machinery of control behind that claim. Rows of gauges warning indicators communications equipment recording apparatus and operator stations show the process by which information from a sprawling generating complex was concentrated into a room where personnel could monitor plant conditions and respond through centralized controls. The exterior photographs establish the corresponding physical system with containment buildings surrounded by construction infrastructure and subsidiary facilities along the Delaware River. Light surface and handling wear occasional edge and corner creasing minor toning and scattered marks; press caption and editorial markings remain present on one verso. Overall good condition. A focused photographic record of the Salem Nuclear Power Plant as both a major 1970s construction project and a centralized technological system linking reactor infrastructure to the instruments and personnel charged with its operation. unknown books
1980rif. 380846Long Beach California: TicketMaster 1980. Unbound. Near Fine. Photomechanically reproduced flyer on 8.5" x 11" paper. Slight toning else near fine. An original flyer promoting a hardcore punk show at Fender's Ballroom Los Angeles with Voivod Kreator Nuclear Assault Executioner and St. Vitus. TicketMaster unknown books
1978rif. 344861Santa Cruz: People for a Nuclear Free Future 1978. 12p. wraps paper toned otherwise very good condition tabloid format. Opposed to the Trident submarine and it's nuclear capacities. People for a Nuclear Free Future unknown books
1979rif. 198454San Francisco: CANT 1979. 1.5 inch diameter pin showing a mesa in New Mexico. CANT unknown books
1985rif. 329109Philadelphia: New Society Publishers 1985. Paperback. 68 10p. wraps illus. light handling wear else very good condition. New Society Publishers paperback books
1984rif. 315678Oakland: Citizens Policy Center 1984. Paperback. 68p. wraps 8.5x11 inches illus. publisher's sticker on rear wrap else very good condition. Citizens Policy Center paperback books
1957rif. 106646Large 8vo softcover illustrated 579 pp. Lower spine and bottom front cover chipped and missing a small portion paper fragile some aging; otherwise fair to good condition. Published by the government and edited by Samuel Glasstone this work tells the reader everything they need to know about nuclear weapons. Illustrated with photographs and charts to make sure you get the picture. United States Atomic Energy Commission. books
1972rif. 237998Mexico City: SUTINEN 1972. Newsletter. Nine issues of the newsletter 8 to 12 pages per issue; numbers present are 4 11/12 13-15 17 18 this issue badly worn an unnumbered issue and no. 21. In 1974 the organizational name changed to SUTERM. Not found in OCLC as of 3/2022. Published by radical trade unionists in the atomic energy field. Many of the issues raised union democratization etc are similar to those of the rank-and-file movements in the US at the same time. SUTINEN unknown books
1960rif. 1410898010xbvkParis, L'Organisation Européenne de Cooperation économique - Agence européenne pour l'Énergie nucléaire, 1960. 295 pages illustrés; Couverture originale illustré avec singes bibliothecaires; 8vo.(ca. 23 x 17 cm).
2010rif. 1501080038xbvkHiroshima, Bunkosha, 2010. 175 pages on glossy paper, photographically illustrated throughout. - Publisher's blue softcover with illustrated dustjacket; 4to.(ca. 31 x 23 cm; ca. 1,2 kg.).
1973rif. 35074Istituto Nazionale die Fisica Necleare. 1973. Mit Darstellungen., 683 Seiten., 4°. orangefarbener OKarton.,
1992rif. 4947Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 1992. XIV, 244 S. (25 cm) Broschur
1958rif. 6824New York, Dover / London, Constable, 1958. VIII, 378 S. Broschur
1970rif. 56330Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Monographs on Physics), 1970. IX, 459 S. Broschierte Ausgabe
1966rif. 28285Braunschweig, Friedr. Vieweg und Sohn, 1966. 12, 95 S. (20,5 cm) Broschierte Ausgabe mit Leinenrücken
1981rif. 72975Braunschweig/Wiesbaden, Vieweg, 1981. (Clustering Phenomena in Nuclei, Volume 2) VIII, 224 S. (23 cm) Pappband / gebundene Ausgabe
1989rif. 4938Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 1989. Particle physics in the 1950s; based on a Fermilab symposium (Based on the lectures and discussions of historians and physicists at the Second International Symposium on the History of Particle Physics, held at Fermilab on 1 - 4 May, 1985) XXXI, 734 S. (24 cm) Leinen mit Umschlag / gebundene Ausgabe
1991rif. 50939Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1991. 263 S. (23 cm) Broschierte Ausgabe
1988rif. NATW1044Mchn., Beck (1988). fast quadrat.-8°, 284 S., mit zahlr., tls. farb. Abb., OLn. m. OU., dieser mit unwes. Gebrauchsspuren, sonst tadellos.
1929rif. NATW1511Jena, Fischer 1929. gr.-8°, 15 S., mit 2 Textabb., OKart., verstaubt, randknitterig.
1958rif. NATW1652(Wien, Österr. Friedensrat o. J., ca. 1958). 39(1) S., ill. OKart., klammergeh., abgegriffen, am Vorderdeckel unterlegte Stelle an Seitenkante, papierbed. gebr.
1948rif. NATW1653Wien, Deuticke 1948. 79 S., 1 w. Bl., mit 41 Textabb., OKart., leicht verstaubt, abgegriffen, hs. Datierung am Innentit., papierbed. schwache Randbräunung. Inhalt: Franziska Seidl, Höchstspannungsgeneratoren in der Kernphysik. dieselb., Über Ultraschall, Schalloptik und Anwendung des Ultraschalles. Karl Przibam, Über Kernphysik. Georg Wagner, Das Elektronen-Mikroskop.
