Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy

Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy

Author	Philip L. Fradkin
Subject	Nuclear fallout
Publisher	University of Arizona Press
Publication date	1989
Pages	300 pp.
ISBN	978-0-8165-1086-3
OCLC	18521228

Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy is a 1989 book by Philip L. Fradkin which was republished in a second edition in 2004. The book is about the radiation exposure of people and their livestock living downwind from the nuclear weapons testing at the Nevada Test Site in the 1950s.^[1] The case of Irene Allen et al. vs. the United States is used as a framework for the narrative.^[2] The court case "resulted in an award of $2.66 million in damages to eight persons with leukemia, one with thyroid cancer, and another with breast cancer".^[3]

Philip Fradkin is an American environmentalist historian, journalist and author. Fradkin shared a Pulitzer Prize awarded to the metropolitan staff of the Los Angeles Times for coverage of the Watts riots in 1965.^[1]^[4]

References

1 2 Luther J. Carter. Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy (Review) The American Political Science Review, Vol. 84, No. 2 (June 1990), pp. 657-658.
↑ Renée H. Guillory. Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy (Review) Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science, Vol. 27, No. 1 (1993), p. 161.
↑ Henry N. Wagner. Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy (Review), JAMA, 1989;262(5):699.
↑ Philip L. Fradkin Biography

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