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Author Nolan, James L., Jr., author.

Title Atomic doctors : conscience and complicity at the dawn of the nuclear age / James L. Nolan, Jr
Published Cambridge : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (294 pages)
Contents Life at Los Alamos -- The Trinity Test -- Delivering Little Boy -- Hiroshima -- Tokyo and Nagasaki -- Managing Radiation and the Radiation Narrative -- Bikini and Enewetak -- Dr. Nolan and the Quandary of Technique -- 1983
Summary "After his father passed away, James Nolan's mother gave him a box of materials that his dad had kept private. To Nolan's complete surprise, the contents revealed the role his grandfather had played as a doctor in the Manhattan Project. Dr. Nolan, it turned out, had been a significant figure. A talented radiologist, he cared for the scientists on the Project, helped organize the safety and evacuation plans for the Trinity Test at Alamogordo, escorted the "Little Boy" bomb from Los Alamos to Japan, and was one of the first Americans to enter the irradiated ruins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The documents set Nolan on a hunt for more information about his grandfather and more generally about the conflicted role that medical personnel played in the early years of atomic testing. The result is a compelling history of the dawn of the atomic age as seen through the eyes of men and women torn between their duty and desire to win the war and their oath to protect life. Nolan follows his grandfather and medical colleagues as they seek to maximize safety while serving leaders determined to minimize delays, and as they consider the ethics of ending the deadliest of all wars with the most lethal of all weapons. The result, Nolan shows, was a very human pattern of caution, co-optation, and complicity. A vital and vivid account of a largely unknown chapter in atomic history, Delivering Little Boy is also a profound meditation on the professional and moral dilemmas that ordinary people face in extraordinary times"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Nolan, James F., 1915-1983.
Medical ethics -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Atomic bomb -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Atomic bomb -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
Hydrogen bomb.
Ethics, Medical
Nuclear Weapons
HISTORY / Military / World War II
Atomic bomb
Medical ethics
SUBJECT Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95003738
Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96007157
History, 20th Century
Japan
United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Subject Japan
Japan -- Hiroshima-shi
Japan -- Nagasaki-shi
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0674249445
9780674249448
0674249429
9780674249424