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The “debate ”on civil defense by Arthur Broyles and Eugene Wigner versus Sidney Drell (April, page 45) ignored the major role that fire will play in any nuclear war, be it large or small. The tendency of the physicist to assign the most familiar effect the greatest importance was apparent in this article. Thus, the electromagnetic pulse, thermal radiation, blast and fallout were given major roles, whereas fire was relegated to two short sentences in the section on shelter design.
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Palmer, T.Y., Friedberg, C.E., Wigner, E.P., Broyles, A.A., Murphey, W., Drell, S.D. (1998). More on Civil Defense. In: Mehra, J. (eds) Socio-Political Reflections and Civil Defense. The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner, vol B / 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58862-4_30
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