Countdown Zero

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Putnam, 1982 - Fiction - 351 pages
This book is about military victims of U.S. atomic testing. 250,000 U.S. servicemen were exposed to incredibly high levels of radiation between 1945 and 1962, without their knowledge or consent. For the government, the experiment was simple: How would soldiers perform under the shadow of the bomb?

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Introduction by Stewart L Udall
13
Land of the Giant Mushrooms
19
The Cobra Strikes
53
Copyright

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