Stories
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The psychological impact of nuclear war
How would you hold up psychologically if a nuclear bomb was dropped? Discover the British government’s secret predictions from the 1980s.
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Medics and the bomb
Would a nuclear attack on the UK overwhelm the NHS? At the height of the Cold War, despite government optimism, medics predicted doom.
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The big freeze
In recent years we’ve come to realise that global heating is our biggest threat. But it’s hard to shake off the fear of a return to ice-age conditions, the predominant narrative since the late 17th century.
Catalogue
- Books
Nuclear explosions and their effects.
Defence Science Organisation (India)Date: 1958- Books
Nuclear explosions and their effects / foreword by Jawaharlal Nehru.
Date: 1956- Archives and manuscripts
14C Hazards to Man of Nuclear and Allied Radiations Papers, calculations and correspondence (1958-1962) re biological hazard from increased 14C concentration nuclear bomb explosions and weapons testing
Date: 1958-1962, 1989Reference: PP/EEP/C.13Part of: Pochin, Sir Edward Eric- Archives and manuscripts
Offprint "Genetical Effects of Radiations from Products of Nuclear Explosions"
Date: Feb 1956Reference: PENROSE/2/35/4/97Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Archives and manuscripts
Memorandum on Leukaemogenic Effect of Test Thermonuclear Explosions
Date: 1955Reference: PENROSE/2/35/4/15Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers