Accession Number:

AD0696959

Title:

PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE ON SELECTED EFFECTS OF A GENERAL WAR (2ND). VOLUME 2

Descriptive Note:

Special rept.

Corporate Author:

GENERAL ELECTRIC CO SANTA BARBARA CA DASA INFORMATION AND ANALYSIS CENTER

Personal Author(s):

Report Date:

1969-07-01

Pagination or Media Count:

423.0

Abstract:

This report is a result of a second conference on the selected effects of a general war held at Princeton, New Jersey, 4-7 October 1967. Specific topics included in this particular conference were the effects of the 1954 hydrogen bomb tests in the Pacific Ocean which resulted in the fallout contamination of Marshall Island natives and of the Japanese fishermen on the Fukuryu Maru Lucky Dragon the ecological effects of nuclear tests in the Pacific regions and the effects of the aircraft accident in Spain, in which nuclear weapons broke up, but did not explode Spanish Incident. The conference was sponsored by the Defense Atomic Support Agency under the auspices of the New York Academy of Sciences. This volume is the second of a 3-volume series on this subject. The other two volumes have similar titles and are numbered DASA 2019-1 and DASA 2019-3.

Descriptors:

• *NUCLEAR WARFARE
• *NUCLEAR WEAPONS
• SYMPOSIA
• DAMAGE
• ATTITUDES(PSYCHOLOGY)
• DAMAGE ASSESSMENT
• JAPAN
• SPAIN
• BLAST
• GENETICS
• ECOLOGY
• NUCLEAR EXPLOSION DAMAGE
• RADIATION EFFECTS
• SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
• MARSHALL ISLANDS
• RADIATION INJURIES
• RADIATION SICKNESS

Subject Categories:

• Radiobiology
• Weapons Effects (Biological)
• Nuclear Warfare

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE