Comments on: Parts, chapters, sections

By: Airminded · Clouds

Airminded · Clouds — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 06:41:05 +0000

[...] (So it’s something to do with air and war and London then …) Below are clouds for each chapter. I just copied the text from the PDF file into Wordle; it works pretty well, except for some reason [...]

By: Brett Holman

Brett Holman — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:06:16 +0000

Full summary -- OR more like!

By: Chris Williams

Chris Williams — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:10:38 +0000

Radioactive dust as a weapon was the centrepeice of RA Heinlein's _Solution Unsatisfactory_, first published in _Austounding_ in late 1940. He also had a take on the World State thang. There's a very full summary of the plot here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solution_Unsatisfactory

By: Brett Holman

Brett Holman — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:01:14 +0000

Ross:

Thanks -- it's a good idea but I'm right up against my word limit! I'm actually trying to cut things rather than add them :) But I do start out with a discussion of the knock-out blow itself.

Lester:

Me too!

michael:

No, I haven't come across any references to dirty bombs or anything similar, and I think the reason is that awareness of fallout and the effects of radiation on humans was very limited until well after Hiroshima. In terms of the damage they do, they are really just portrayed as very big bombs, although sometimes with unusual properties (cf. H. G. Wells' The World Set Free). You might find Paul Brians' book of interest, if you haven't come across it already:

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/nuclear/

JDK:

I'm thinking wordle, actually ...

http://www.wordle.net/

By: JDK

JDK — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:46:38 +0000

I still think it'll do well as a T shirt.

Parts on the front, chapters & sections on the back.

Should be a great icebreaker at parties.

By: michael marshall

michael marshall — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:34:44 +0000

I have only seen a few reference to radiation ray weapons and a few references to atomic explosive bombs in the period 1900- 1940 - have you found many references to a radioactive particles bomb ?

Ie bombers dispersing radioactivity material, in a similar manner to the dispersing of germs and poison gas, over large cities.

By: Lester

Lester — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:44:38 +0000

I want to read this already! I hope it becomes a book...

By: Ross

Ross — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:39:16 +0000

That look like an effective structure. Sounds like a good read too. My only suggestions, and something suggested to me by my supervisor, is to include in your introduction defintion of the key areas that you are discussing. In my case it was Combined Operations, Doctrine, Military Effectiveness. It may well form part of Historiography section but it will be worht adding in I think.