[Nuclear Warfare]

Notes on Nuclear Warfare for Medical Officers. (Reprinted 1959 incorporating WO Amendment No 1) [cover title]

[London], The War Office [HMSO], 1959 (reprint, 'incorporating WO Amendment No 1')/ 1957.

Octavo, [ii], 52 (first blank) pages with a frontispiece, a map and 6 illustrations.

Flush-cut cord-bound hole-punched card covers slightly marked and creased; an excellent copy.

'WO Code No. 11934. 26/Manuals/3859', a restricted publication in its time. The map depicts a typical fall-out pattern (based on a US test explosion on 1 March 1954) superimposed on a map of England; it is a wide band running from Lancashire to Suffolk.