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
ISBN	978-0-8165-1086-3

Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedyis a 1989 book byPhilip L. Fradkinwhich was republished in a second edition in 2004. The book is about theradiation exposureof people and their livestock livingdownwindfrom thenuclear weapons testingat theNevada Test Sitein the 1950s.^[1]The case ofIrene Allen et al. vs. the United Statesis used as a framework for the narrative.^[2]The court case "resulted in an award of $2.66 million in damages to eight persons withleukemia,one withthyroid cancer,and another withbreast cancer".^[3]

Philip Fradkin is an Americanenvironmentalisthistorian and journalist. Fradkin shared aPulitzer Prizeawarded to the metropolitan staff of theLos Angeles Timesfor coverage of theWatts riotsin 1965.^[1]^[4]

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^^a ^bLuther 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".Archived fromthe originalon 2010-11-23.Retrieved2009-12-28.

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