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…
Non-fiction documentary writing about the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster of April 26, 1986, and the aftermath.
Atomic Farmgirl is a wise, irreverent, deeply personal story of growing up right in the wrong place. The great-granddaughter of German Lutheran homesteaders, Teri Hein was raised in the 1950s and 1960s in rural eastern Washington. This starkly elegant landscape serves as the poi…