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Fi neuron bombs 'theatre of is wang die by 9020 ment, will be dealt with in TWO WEEKS ago I summarised the first article in a series 'Medicine and the Bomb' [British Medical Journal] describing the immediate effects of a one megaton airburst over BMA House in Central UVER London. The second article dealt with the effects of fallout radiation in the first fortnight on the human race.
With a stiff breeze in a north cloud of fall-out would kill west untruel, a vagu unprotected people as far as Manchester and beyond. How would they die?
Really massive doses of radíation lover 5000 rads] would cause immediate nausea and vomiting [N&V], followed by convulsions, tremors, and listlessness, with all victims dead in twn dava from breathing 11.. — failure or swelling of the brain. Most people suffering such doses would probably die first from blast or heat.
1000 to 5000 rads (the dose in North West London, for example would cause N&V for a day, followed by apparept recovery for about five days, then diarrhoea and fever until death of all victims in two weeks. This would be the fate of many soldiers and civilians nuclear weapons'] were used in Central Europe.
SCIENCE WELL OF COURSE, THAT WAS ALL PRE-BOMB SCIENCE YOU KNOW! 600 to 100U rads [Lonqou w Coventry| would cause N&V for two days, recovery for five to ten days, then loss of hair and white blood cells [leading to uncontrolled infections|, and haemorrhage for up to four weeks with 90 to 100% of victims dying.
200 to 600 rads [Coventry to beyond Manchester| would cause similar symptoms, with a recovery phase of one
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