The decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 was made on the assumption that "all casualties would be standard explosion casualities...Any person with radiation damage would have been killed with a brick first". But a month later journalists were describing how people uninjured in the initial cataclysm were dying mysterious and horrible deaths from what they could only describe as "the atomic plague". It took two full years to get the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission operational in the devastated cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Even then data collection was piecemeal and was brought within the parameters of existing assumptions about the effects of the atom bomb. Sue Roff has discovered a black comedy of scientific shortcuts and opportunistic research design, while at the same time piecing together an interpretation of leukaemia clusters that both synthesizes and challenges major theories.

Hotspots: The Legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

History

Roff, Sue Rabbitt

Military

UNKNO

Hotspots: The Legacy of Hiroshima (Cassell Global Issues)

<p>Tells how the US has, for more than a decade, been coercing (and terrorizing) the peace-loving people of this tiny Trust Territory in Micronesia, following their adoption in 1979 of a nuclear-free constitution. Both scholarly and very readable. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.</p>

Overreaching in Paradise: United States Policy in Palau Since 1945

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Denali Pr

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