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The Protection of the Public from Aerial Attack

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IN this book, the authors?a group of antwar scientists at Cambridge?have published a slashing attack on the recommendations put forward by the Air Raid Precautions Department of the Home Office for the protection of the public, and they offer scientific evidence to show that these measures are entirely inadequate.

The Protection of the Public from Aerial Attack

a Critical Examination of the Recommendations put forward by the Air Raid Precautions Department of the Home Office. By the Cambridge Scientists' Anti-War Group. Pp. 127. (London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1937.) 2s. 6d. net.

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FOULKES, C. The Protection of the Public from Aerial Attack. Nature 139, 606–608 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139606a0

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