H - bombs on the Midlands. A memorandum presented to the Birmingham city council 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'. c.1961