Atomic Doctors / / James L. Nolan Jr.

An unflinching examination of the moral and professional dilemmas faced by physicians who took part in the Manhattan Project.After his father died, James L. Nolan, Jr., took possession of a box of private family materials. To his surprise, the small secret archive contained a treasure trove of infor...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 Life at Los Alamos
  • 2 The Trinity Test
  • 3 Delivering Little Boy
  • 4 Hiroshima
  • 5 Tokyo and Nagasaki
  • 6 Managing Radiation and the Radiation Narrative
  • 7 Bikini and Enewetak
  • 8 Dr. Nolan and the Quandary of Technique
  • 9 1983
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Illustration Credits
  • Index