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Radiation, Cancer, and Mutation in the Atomic Age

2014-01-01

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Following World War II, the publication of accounts such as John Hersey’s Hiroshima (1946) documented the devastating effects of atomic weaponry on inhabitants of the two Japanese cities targeted by atomic bombs. Yet the American government presented a positive image of the atom’s benefits for its citizens in peacetime. In the late 1940s and 1950s, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission sought to develop nuclear medici...

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Literature Corpus work: 4399f77e-c8e3-5998-9731-859ac27974c8
DOI: 10.1525/hsns.2015.45.1.14

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