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A GREAT deal of the terrifying effect of bombs has been due to our lack of knowledge of the processes that take place. It is naturally difficult to study events which take place with the rapidity and violence of explosions, but it is not impossible, and thanks to the work of a large number of physicists in many countries before the War, and particularly in Great Britain during the War in the laboratories of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, we may say that the main features of the physical processes involved in explosions are becoming well understood. Naturally it is impossible to give here more than the broadest outlines of our present knowledge, both on account of its intricate nature and even more because of the requirements of secrecy.
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BERNAL, J. The Physics of Air Raids. Nature 147, 594–596 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147594a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147594a0