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Whole World on FireOrganizations, Knowledge, and Nuclear Weapons Devastation\nAuthor(s): Lynn Eden\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9780801435782, 978-0801435782\nSynopsis\nWhole World on Fire focuses on a technical riddle wrapped in an organizational mystery: How and why, for more than half a century, did the [url] government fail to predict nuclear fire damage as it drew up plans to fight strategic nuclear war?[url] bombing in World War II caused massive fire damage to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but later war plans took account only of damage from blast; they completely ignored damage from atomic firestorms. Recently a small group of researchers has shown that for modern nuclear weapons the destructiveness and lethality of nuclear mass fire oftenand predictablygreatly exceeds that of nuclear blast. This has major implications for defense policy: the [url] government has underestimated the damage caused b.