Hotspots: Legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Cassell global issues) - Softcover

Roff, Sue Rabbitt

 
9780304334384: Hotspots: Legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Cassell global issues)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0304334383 ISBN 13: 9780304334384
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 1995

Synopsis

The decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 was made on the assumption that "all casualties would be standard explosion casualities...Any person with radiation damage would have been killed with a brick first". But a month later journalists were describing how people uninjured in the initial cataclysm were dying mysterious and horrible deaths from what they could only describe as "the atomic plague". It took two full years to get the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission operational in the devastated cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Even then data collection was piecemeal and was brought within the parameters of existing assumptions about the effects of the atom bomb. Sue Roff has discovered a black comedy of scientific shortcuts and opportunistic research design, while at the same time piecing together an interpretation of leukaemia clusters that both synthesizes and challenges major theories.

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Synopsis

The decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 was made on the assumption that "all casualties would be standard explosion casualities...Any person with radiation damage would have been killed with a brick first". But a month later journalists were describing how people uninjured in the initial cataclysm were dying mysterious and horrible deaths from what they could only describe as "the atomic plague". It took two full years to get the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission operational in the devastated cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Even then data collection was piecemeal and was brought within the parameters of existing assumptions about the effects of the atom bomb. Sue Roff has discovered a black comedy of scientific shortcuts and opportunistic research design, while at the same time piecing together an interpretation of leukaemia clusters that both synthesizes and challenges major theories.

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Publisher
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Publication date
1995
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0304334383
ISBN 13 
9780304334384
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
288

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