| Description | Fremlin, John (University Reader in Physics) and Sevitt, Simon (Consultant Pathologist and member of the International Medical Delegation to Japan on the Medical and Biological Effects of A and H - Bombs, 1955), 'H - Bombs on the Midlands. A Memorandum Presented to the Birmingham City Council', printed by Lawrence Bros. (Weston-super-Mare) Ltd. (London).
Front cover: 'Does present Civil Defence policy for our large cities make sense? Two Birmingham scientists, a nuclear physicist and a leading authority on burns, felt so disturbed about misleading current ideas that in 1961 they prepared and submitted a special memorandum to the Birmingham City Council ...'.
Memorandum concludes: 'Since this Memorandum was presented, the existence of bombs of more than fifty megatons has become known. Thus the situation today is even more serious than that outlined above'. |