This description is copied from the inside flap of the front dust cover:
The Nuclear Handbook is designed as a day to day reference book.
It contains in condensed, and wherever possible, tabulated form the basic data likely to be needed both in research and in the practical applicationof nuclear science.
The 19 sections have been written and compiled by recognised authorities in the various fields.
The book will be invaluable to physicists engaged on pure research, and to all scientists and technologists whose work is affected in any way by the rapid increase in knowledge and application of the subject.