Te aIN, S _ Their drafts are being reviewed by AEC and militery personnel, some 300 copies having been distributed for this purpose. An experienced ecitor of technical books is editing t:em into final form for concurrence of tue authors, approval of the Coamiesion and the Department, of Detense, and publica— tion. If possible, the final technical volume will be published in its entirety as an unclasified document. If it 1s impossible to declassify some inforretion deemed vital, the whole volume will be published in classified form, with an abridged vdume in unclassified form. The Comuisaion is preparing public informational saterials based on the content of the approved draft chapters. The general content of the draft volume covers: Atomic explosions, what they are and how caused The detailed technical nature of an explosion The effects of sir, water and ground burste The kinds of construction which will reaist atomic explosions The inportance of weather in the use of atomic bombs The heat and radiation of atomic explosions Types of uaterials most vulnerable to the heat and blest of stomic explosions The theory of detection of radiation, the instruments used, how the; work, what they cost, and their availability The distribution and absorption of gamma rays in atomic explosions The hazards of racloactive contamination Deconteninsation; methods that may be used to get rid af the after-effects on atomic bomb explosiona Raclological warfare Contemimtion of underwater organisugs by underwater blasts