The Constructive Uses of Nuclear Explosives

C3a. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by McGraw-Hill, New York, 1968. Xiv, 320 pages. Signed and inscribed by Edward Teller, Wilson K. Talley, Gary H. Higgins & Gerald W. Johnson to physicst an former Livermore Lab head Michael May. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has heavy shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ is chipped and worn with pieces missing from the edges of the DJ). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Michael M May's name stamped to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Suitable as a text for senior and graduate courses in the phenomenology and uses of nuclear explosives, this book is also invaluable to the practicing mechanical, civil, chemical, and petroleum engineers and scientists interested in applying peaceful nuclear explosive technology in their disciplines. This is the first technical monograph on nuclear explosive engineering and summarized the basis for industrial, excavating, and scientific applications of nuclear explosives. More than 200 underground detonations have provided the data presented in this work. The correlation of calculated values with observed phenomena is stressed. It is because this predictive capability exists that nuclear explosives were able to be considered as constructive tools. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .