The story of nuclear testing in Nevada in the 1950s and 1960s, and the subsequent health effects on the unsuspecting people downwind in Nevada, Utah and Arizona. The book is framed around the 1982 trial by cancer victims and their survivors, which the author, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, attended.
The story of the Atomic Energy Commission's atomic bomb testing in Southwestern Utah and Eastern Nevada in the early 1950s. Most of the bombs were more powerful than Hiroshima, yet the government assured the local population that they were safe, and denied responsibility for their ensuing illness.
In this book, Dr. Gofman presents evidence that cancer can be caused by low doses of radiation, refuting claims that there are safe levels of radiation exposure.
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