Atomic Doctors

304 Pages·2020·5.77 MB·English

by  James L. Nolan

atomic doctors

Atomic Doctors
Conscience and Complicity at
the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
james l. nolan, jr.
the belknap press of
harvard university press
Cambridge, Mas sa chu setts
London, England
2020
Copyright © 2020 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of Amer i ca
First printing
Jacket design: Tim Jones
Jacket photographs: Second from the top from the author’s collection;
others courtesy of the National Archives
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ISBN: 978-0-674-24863-2 (cloth)
To Póvi Ts’áy

Contents
Introduction 1
1 Life at Los Alamos 5
2 The Trinity Test 31
3 Delivering Little Boy 59
4 Hiroshima 80
5 Tokyo and Nagasaki 106
6 Managing Radiation and the Radiation Narrative 137
7 Bikini and Enewetak 167
8 Dr. Nolan and the Quandary of Technique 196
9 1983 221
Notes 237
Acknowl edgments 281
Illustration Credits 285
Index 287

Atomic Doctors