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Air war and emotional stress : psychological studies of bombing and civilian defense.

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"How do people react to wartime dangers? How do they adjust to threats of impending attack? How have survivors responded? ... What needs to be done in the United States to reduce psychological vulnerability to the A-bomb threat? This book casts light on these pressing questions in a comprehensi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Janis, Irving L. (Irving Lester), 1918-1990
Corporate Author: Rand Corporation
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : McGraw-Hill, 1951.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Rand note.
Subjects:
Air warfare > Psychological aspects.
Civil defense.
Civil Defense.
Nuclear Warfare.
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic.
Stress, Psychological.
War.
Guerre mondiale 1939-1945. Guerre aérienne. Hiroshima.
Questions Militaires. Energie atomique.
Questions intellectuelles. Guerre. Essais américains.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:"How do people react to wartime dangers? How do they adjust to threats of impending attack? How have survivors responded? ... What needs to be done in the United States to reduce psychological vulnerability to the A-bomb threat? This book casts light on these pressing questions in a comprehensive analysis of all existing reports of the psychological aspects of air war--with detailed descriptions of the psychological effects of atomic bombing, and conventional air attacks"--Jacket. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved).
Item Description:A Rand Corporation research study.
Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 280 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-266).