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Atomic Doctors - Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age (Hardcover)
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Atomic Doctors - Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age (Hardcover)
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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 information about his grandfather's
role as a doctor in the Manhattan Project. Dr. Nolan, it turned
out, had been a significant figure. A talented ob-gyn radiologist,
he cared for the scientists on the project, organized safety and
evacuation plans for the Trinity test at Alamogordo, escorted the
"Little Boy" bomb from Los Alamos to the Pacific Islands, and was
one of the first Americans to enter the irradiated ruins of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Participation on the project challenged Dr.
Nolan's instincts as a healer. He and his medical colleagues were
often conflicted, torn between their duty and desire to win the war
and their oaths to protect life. Atomic Doctors follows these
physicians as they sought to maximize the health and safety of
those exposed to nuclear radiation, all the while serving leaders
determined to minimize delays and maintain secrecy. Called upon
both to guard against the harmful effects of radiation and to
downplay its hazards, doctors struggled with the ethics of ending
the deadliest of all wars using the most lethal of all weapons.
Their work became a very human drama of ideals, co-optation, and
complicity. A vital and vivid account of a largely unknown chapter
in atomic history, Atomic Doctors is a profound meditation on the
moral dilemmas that ordinary people face in extraordinary times.
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