Homemade, oversized, “nuclear weapon effects computer”. Circular slide rules manufactured to calculate the various effects and time lengths of a post nuclear landscape.
1. The Commander’s Radiation Guide, ca. 1960’s. Also described as the “Fission Fragment Fallout Decay and Dose Guide."
2. Detail of the homemade slide rule showing just a few of it’s charming variables.
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