dynamic response of underground structures has always been a topic of concern for designers and researchers. the behavior of these complicated systems under blast loading is affected by various factors and parametric studies are required to investigate their significance. the importance of soil density around the underground structure through which, the waves of explosion of a penetrator bomb i...

Background: The earlier Atomic Bomb explosion in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and three worth mentioning nuclear accidents - detonation at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, Chernobyl nuclear fallout and an accident at Three Mile Island nuclear power plant have made us more worried about the secure exploitation of nuclear energy. The central focus of this paper is to review radiation-mediated health e...

In a highly influential recent paper by Elitzur and Vaidman, it was pointed out that the presence of an object (often called a “bomb”) can often be discerned without it absorbing even a single photon. This “interaction free measurement” scheme and later improvements on it2–5 have received a lot of attention, both in the popular press as well as in serious scientific journals2–5,7. In this paper...

BACKGROUND/AIM High-dose radiation exposure greatly increases the risk of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), however the clinical characteristics of MDS among atomic bomb survivors have not been thoroughly investigated to date. We designed this study to identify these characteristics. PATIENTS AND METHODS We retrospectively evaluated data from 13 atomic bomb survivors with MDS and 15 elderly pa...

Rotating-bomb calorimetry was first applied to organic compounds that contain chlorine, bromine, or sulphur. Techniques developed for these classes of compounds, mostly at the University of Lund and at the Bureau of Mines in Bartlesville, have been described in the book Experimental Thermochemistry-, The development of rotating-bomb methods made accurate combustion calorimetry feasible for othe...

To reduce human casualties associated with explosive ordnance disposal, a wide range of protective wear has been designed to shield against the blast effects of improvised explosive devices and munitions. In this study, 4 commercially available bomb suits, representing a range of materials and armor masses, were evaluated against 0.227 and 0.567 kg of spherical C-4 explosives to determine the l...

The purpose of this study was to perform an initial investigation of the possibility to determine breast cancer growth rate with (14)C bomb-pulse dating. Tissues from 11 breast cancers, diagnosed in 1983, were retrieved from a regional biobank. The estimated average age of the majority of the samples overlapped the year of collection (1983) within 3σ Thus, this first study of tumour tissue has ...