Fallout; A Study of Superbombs, Strontium 90 and Survival

New York: Basic Books 1960, 2nd printing. (Hardcover) 235pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Graphs, tables, photographs, illustrations, diagrams, appendix, glossary, index. The top and bottom of the spine is faded and the dust jacket is chipped at the top and bottom of the spine. "This is the first book of its kind - a balanced and understandable account of nuclear weapons and the multitude of hazards they have created for mankind. Written by scientists who have been investigating superbombs and their effects, it presents a factual appraisal of the radiation dangers arising from bomb testing, fo the negotiations among the nuclear powers to control the weapons race, and of man's chances of escaping nuclear annihilation". Book about Strontium 90 & Superbombs. Foreword by Adlai E. Stevenson. (Weapons, Applied Science, Bombs, Nuclear Age, Nuclear War, Science, Weapons).