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[Los Angeles: Peoples Action Union, n.d. but 1975?]. First Edition. Narrow octavo; single sheet folded into eight-panelled pamphlet; illus. and text printed in brown. Light wear from handling, extremities a bit toned, else Very Good. Brochure promoting the upcoming 21st World Conference Against Atomic & Hydrogen Bombs, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Not separately catalogued in OCLC as of March, 2020.
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30 Years Later from Around the World People Will Gather to Demand: No More Hiroshima's! No More Nagasaki's!
by PEOPLES ACTION UNION
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Atomic Murder
by GRIBBLE, Leonard
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Chicago: Ziff-Davis, 1947. First Edition. 8vo. 21cm x 15cm. Publisher's extremely dramatic purple moiré cloth. Dustjacket. Titled in black to spine, clean and bright with some light bumping to spine neds in a fresh, strong dustjacket with some light marginal scuffing and a small shallow triangle of loss to the base of the spine. A very good copy. 235pp. Internally clean. A Ziff-Davis "Fingerprint Mystery" dealing with missing atomic secrets, and the murder of a Peer of The Realm and his glamorous society mistress. Sounds like a job for Superintendent Slade...Gribble was a prolific British mystery author now rather better known for his football based mysteries.
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Atomic Soldiers: American Victims of Nuclear Experiments.
by ROSENBERG, Howard L.
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Boston: Beacon Press, 1980. First Edition. 8vo. 21cm x 15cm. Publisher's black cloth boards. Dustjacket. Titled and decorated in red to spine and front board, clean and handsome in a clean, bright dustjacket. A near fine copy. 192pp. Internally clean. A serious and meticulously researched account of the manner in which US servicemen were used as guinea pigs whilst assessing the effects of exposure to nuclear weapons during the height of the US's race for nuclear supremacy. The inspiration for the 1989 Martin Sheen/Emilio Estevez movie "Nightbreaker.
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[Broadsheet] Help Stop Nuclear Weapons / Don't Buy GE Products!
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South Pasadena, CA: Infact, n.d. but 1986. First Edition. Broadsheet flyer (28cm.); printed offset in black on yellow stock. Uneven toning and some spotting, minor wrinkling from handling, else Very Good and sound. Issued by the "national grassroots organization of concerned people organizing effective campaigns to stop the life-threatening abuses of transnational corporations," here urging readers to boycott General Electric, manufacturer of several parts of nuclear weapon systems, including the nuclear generator. Date based on reference made to the 1986 GE shareholder meeting. Not separately catalogued in OCLC as of July, 2019.
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The Case for Disarmament [cover title]
by SWOMLEY, John, Jr.
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[Philadelphia: Reprinted...for the Program on Disarmament by Peace Education Program, American Friends Service Committee, 1960]. Reprint. Octavo (21.25cm.); pictorial staplebound self-wrappers; 6pp.; illus., printed on grey stock. Extremities a bit toned, else About Very Good. Reprinted from The Progressive, April, 1960. OCLC locates 4 copies as of November, 2015, at Central Florida, Ohio, U. Texas, and Wisconsin.
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Collection of Four Handbills
by NO BUSINESS AS USUAL
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San Francisco & Berkeley: NBAU, 1985-1987. Four handbills measuring approx. 27.5x21.5cm. to 35.75x21.5cm.; illus. Faint previous mail folds, else a Near Fine collection. Includes:. 1. "Quarantine." San Francisco, 1985. Printed on blue stock. Announcing an NBAU protest April 29, 1985, including a rush hour "Quarantine of Treasure Island" and midmorning "Disruptions in the Financial District." 2. "Demonstration! denounce and demonstrate against george shultz and all the 'peace-talking' war mongers." San Francisco, 1985. Announcement for a protest at the Fairmont Hotel February 22, 1985. "A Call to Act" printed on verso. 3. "There's No Business Like No Business Like No Business At All!" Berkeley, 1985. Announcing a national planning conference December 1st and 2nd, 1985. 4. "No Business as Usual Greets...The Star Wars Criminals Conferenc[e] Monday, Dec 1st..." San Francisco, 1987. Announcement for a protest against the second annual conference of the Strategic Defense Initiative, December 1st, 1987.…
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Command the Morning
by BUCK, Pearl S.
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New York: John Day Company, 1959. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Original light blue cloth, stamped in black, in blue dust jacket; plain endpapers; 317pp. A straight copy, head and tail pushed, lightly faded along top edge, else Near Fine. Jacket trimmed at corners but price ($4.50) still present, generally faded, spine much faded, edges rubbed: Very Good. A novel about the creation of the atom bomb: "the story of three top U.S. scientists engaged before 1940 in nuclear physics, and of how they were drawn . . . into making the bomb during the war and were persuaded to assent to its use" (1959 Review by V. S. Pritchett). Buck was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Raised in China, she wrote extensively on Chinese and Asian culture.
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A Commentary on the Report of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation
by NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL - COMMITTEE ON PATHOLOGIC EFFECTS OF ATOMIC RADIATION
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Washington DC: National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, 1959. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); publisher's staplebound hole-punched card wrappers; [2],5pp.; printed from typescript. Extremities rather unevenly toned, else Very Good and sound. Issued as Committee Report no. 2 and Publication no. 647.
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Congress and the Atom
by [ATOMIC WARFARE] [LAW] MARKS, Herbert S.
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Stanford: Stanford Law Review, 1948. Staple-bound pamphlet; original printed wraps; pp 23-42. Toning and light soil to covers; internally fine. Offprint from the Stanford Law Review, Vol. 1 No. 1 (November 1948).
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A Different Nuclear War. Children of the Gulf War
by MORIZUMI, Takashi
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[Hiroshima]: Global Association for Banning Depleted Uranium Weapons, 2002. First Edition. Oblong quarto. Pictorial staple-bound wrappers; [32pp]; chiefly illus. Mild wear to wrapper edges, else Fine. Photoessay documenting severe birth and developmental defects among Iraqi citizens in the years following the first Gulf War, attributed by the authors to the use of depleted-uranium agents in armor-piercing shells by coalition forces. A startling collection of images documenting a horrific array of symptoms.
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[Drop title] No More Hiroshimas
by WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE et al.
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[Palo Alto: Mid-Peninsula Conversion Project, n.d., ca. 1976. First Edition. Pictorial broadsheet (28x21.5cm.) printed on blue stock. Light wear from handling, else Fine. Handbill issued in response to the ongoing construction of a Trident missile-carrying submarine, "one of which will be able to destroy 408 separate cities.
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Effects of Inhaled Radioactive Particles: Report of the Subcommittee on Inhalation Hazards
by NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL - COMMITTEE ON PATHOLOGIC EFFECTS OF ATOMIC RADIATION
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Washington DC: National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, 1961. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); publisher's staplebound card wrappers; vi,78pp.; illus. Light wear and a hint of soil to wrappers, else Very Good and sound. Publication 848.
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Final Report. Unclassified Portion of PROZID a Study of Progressive Zonal Inspection of Disarmament. Volume III: Selected Tables and Illustrations
by [RAYTHEON CORPORATION]
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Bedford, MA: Raytheon Advanced Development Laboratory, Missile and Space Division, 1962. Quarto (28cm). Printed card wrappers with cloth-reinforced spine; 131pp; chiefly illus and charts, some folding. Mild cover soil and edgewear; Very Good or better. Strategic report regarding nuclear disarmament inspections in Soviet Bloc countries. This volume contains graphic supplements; presumably two earlier volumes contained the narrative portions of the report - but a summary of the conclusions is present here, e.g., (3), Asymmetries of firepower (in which the West has an advantage) and information (in which the Communist bloc has an advantage) are the major source of difficulty in achieving a mutually acceptable zonal inspection system.
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First Step Toward Peace: President Kennedy Speaks on Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
by [NUKES] [KENNEDY, John F.]
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Taipei: United States Information Service, [1963]. 12mo (19cm). Stapled pamphlet in black and white paper wrappers; 31,[1]pp. Bilingual, with text in English and Chinese. Minor discoloration to wrappers, short tear and attendant creases to front fore-edge, else clean and Very Good. Propaganda pamphlet, including Kennedy's July 26, 1963 speech on the proposed Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and the text of the Treaty, in English and Chinese translation. Produced by the Taipei branch of the USIS, the international arm of the U.S. Information Agency, a Cold War-era government agency dedicated to pro-American public diplomacy. No copies in OCLC. [62759].
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A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes
by [NUKES] SMYTH, H.D.
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Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1945. First Edition. Octavo. Publisher's printed wrappers; vii, 182pp. Ink ownership signature ("David Caliri") to front wrapper; corners bumped, with minor external wear; still a tight, Very Good to Near Fine copy. First published edition of this Twentieth Century milestone, following a tiny mimeographed issue that appeared a few weeks earlier for advance distribution to the press and the scientific community. Includes a foreword by General Leslie Groves, Director of the Manhattan Project. Generally regarded as the first publicly-issued work on the subject of nuclear warfare, described by Carter and Muir as a "remarkably full and candid account of the development work carried out between 1940 and 1945 ... which culminated in the production of the first atomic bomb (PMM 422e).
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The Impact of Military Spending on the Machinists Union
by [INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS] ANDERSON, Marion
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Washington DC: International Association of Machinists (IAM), 1979. First Edition. Quarto. Staple-bound card wrappers; 16pp. Mild toning to text margins, else Fine. Argues for a rebalancing of defense spending, with greater apportionment to civilian infrastructure projects and alternative energy initiatives.
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In Praise of Caveman: The Atom Bomb Poems [Samisdat, Vol. 40, no. 1]
by HEAD, Robert Grady
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Richford, VT: Samisdat, 1984. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's yellow pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 15pp. Minor blue staining to textblock from time of production, else Near Fine.
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Labor's Stake in Peace
by MAXEY, Emil; William C. Davidon; Fenner Brockway
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Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee, [1960]. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 16pp. Mild toning to wrapper edges, four lines of text neatly underlined in ink, else Near Fine. Prints the full textof an address by Mazey, Secretary Treasurer of the UAW; and excerpts of speeches by physicist William C. Davidon and British Labor Party M.P. Fenner Brockway.
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Mass Resistance [cover title]
by COMMITTEE OF 100
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London: Committee of 100, [1961]. First Edition. Octavo bifolium (20.75cm.); purple text printed on blue stock. Fine. Anti-nuclear Committee's mission statement. Co-founded by Ralph Schoenman and his employer Bertrand Russell, the Committee was one of the earliest to use British artist Gerald Holtom's now-ubiquitous peace sign, first created for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Peace sign prominently displayed here. Flyer not in OCLC as of October, 2015.
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Mass Resistance, Saturday, 9th December, 1961 [cover title]
by COMMITTEE OF 100
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[London: Goodwin Press Ltd], 1961. First Edition. Small octavo (20.5cm.); single sheet folded into 6-panelled pamphlet. Fine. Anti-nuclear Committee announcing blocking and mass walk-on demonstrations on December 9, 1961, at Ruislip, Middlesex and Brize Norton, Oxford, as well as Cardiff, Bristol, Yorkshire, and Manchester. Donation blank provided on one panel. British Library only in OCLC as of October, 2015.
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