reports of this type is attached. This official compilation and publication of inforration has been eupplenented, and greatly enlarged, by a vast outpouring of published material by private groups end in populer and technical magazines. * Pa eR field run into thousands. The titles ih this A few of the more significant titles include: *“Anerica Can Be Made Bomb Resistant," in the Coast Artillery Journal, "Inaustrial Vulnerability to Bombing," in the Military Engineer, and the “General Report of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission.*® A selected bibliography indicating the content of this type offinforsational publication is attached as Appendix D. Az thisfeummary indicates, much saterisl of greeter or lesser value to civilian defense, is steadily being prepared end published. The process of compiling material that will be valuable to those comerned with <efense against atomic attack goea on continuously. As sas reported to the Congress in the Fifth Sed&iannual Report of the Commission, a goint NME-~AiC project undertaken by the Loe Alamos Scientific Laboratory calls for preparation of a handbook on the effects of atomic weapons. of this volume are now in first or eecond draft. The 20 chapters There is a large problem of Ro ot . teee declassification te be solved before the volume can be published. The project was first proposed by a joint NME-AEC Weapons Erfects Classification Board. Its purpose was to aid in establishing limits on the unclassified areas of information on weapons effects, and to assist developing prograns both for military training and for civil derense. The basic scientific and technical data on which the Handbook draft ia baced are available in classified or unclassified form in voluminous reports within the Commission and the Department of Defense. The individual chapters Lave been done by <1 experts in various fleids. IM