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Dealing with the dead after a nuclear attack
Cold War-era predictions of death on a vast scale became routine. But the British authorities were less prepared to dispose of the bodies.
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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.
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Tracing the toxic story of tear gas
Investigating tear gas – from factory to Black Lives Matter protest – Imani Jacqueline Brown uncovers a toxic legacy where pollution, violence and racism are intimately entwined.
Catalogue
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'Weapons'
Date: 1935-1936Reference: WA/HMM/TR/Pre/A.19Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Archives and manuscripts
Weapons manufacture and health press cuttings
Date: 1988-1989Reference: SA/MED/P/2/8Part of: Medact- Archives and manuscripts
'Weapons questionnaire - visit to No 21 P/W Camp'
Date: August 1943Reference: PP/HVD/A/3/10Part of: Dicks, Henry- E-books
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Weapons of choice : the development of precision guided munitions / Paul G. Gillespie.
Gillespie, Paul G., 1962-Date: c2006- E-books
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Weapons of the weak : everyday forms of peasant resistance / James C. Scott.
Scott, James C.Date: c1985