Research in the Effects and Influences of the Nuclear Bomb Test Explosions. Together with General Backgrounds of these Reports. Annex to Research in the Effects and Influences of the Nuclear Bomb Test Explosions

Two quarto volumes. 823; [2], 825-1824 pp. Together with the separately issued scarce annex 18-page pamphlet originally intended to be bound immediately following the chairman's preface. Text in English. Profusely illustrated throughout with photographs, maps, charts, graphs, technical diagrams, statistical tables, and scientific data. Original publisher's bindings in cream color dust jackets. Darkening to spines; minor wear; else a near fine set of an important and comprehensive synthesis of Japan's scientific investigation into the effects of radioactive fallout following the United States thermonuclear weapons tests at Bikini Atoll. As explained in Chairman Seiji Kaya's preface, the work was prepared by members of the Special Committee on the Effects of Radioactivity, established after the March 1954 Bikini thermonuclear test "for the purpose of co-ordinating scientific research in injuries caused by radiations in consequence of this test." The compilation brought together the work of specialists in physics, chemistry, meteorology, biology, agriculture, fisheries, economics, and medicine, presenting one of the first comprehensive English-language accounts of Japan's coordinated scientific response to radioactive fallout.…