This unique book provides an accessible introduction to both the scientific background and the key people involved in the discovery and use of radiation and radioactivity. It begins by providing a short history of radiation exposures and radiation poisoning; from the early inapp…
A detailed account of government-engineered radiation experiments performed on unwitting Americans.
A report on the secret medical experiments in which eighteen unwitting patients were injected with plutonium.
"Fearful that plutonium might cause a cancer epidemic among workers ... the Manhattan Project's doctors embarked upon an experiement in which ... unsuspecting patients ... were secretly injected with the cancer causing substance."--Jacket.
"When the vast wartime factories of the Manhattan Project began producing plutonium in quantities never before seen on earth, scientists working on the top secret bomb building program grew apprehensive. Fearful that plutonium might cause a cancer epidemic among workers and desp…
