Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America's Experience with Atomic Radiation

by Robert Alvarez, Harvey Wasserman, Eleanor Walters, et al.

Book Overview

Killing Our Own is the tragic tale of a hypothetical danger become a health disaster. It is a fast-moving, comprehensive, often brutal account that will rouse the ire of those concerned with their own... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440045673
• ISBN13: 9780440045670
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Not Avail
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Good Citizenship in Action

Today, it is hardly surprising to discover that in the past a pattern of deceit was considered essential by certain elements within the United States federal government to further their approach to national security and energy needs. This book is a fine example of the realism that citizenship requires when asking questions about the worth of nuclear technology. It is a credible and scientifically literate example of the kind of debate that continues between the medical community and Federally funded scientists who live in a world where dissent to Federal policy is career-suicide. It is also a moving account of ordinary lives cut down by Federally sponsored nuclear programs.