Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy is a 1989 book by Philip L. Fradkin which was republished in a second edition in 2004. The book is about the radiation exposure of people and their livestock living downwind from the nuclear weapons testing at the Nevada Test Site in the 1950s.Luther J. Carter. Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy (Review) The American Political Science Review, Vol. 84, No. 2 (June 1990), pp. 657-658. The case of Irene Allen et al. vs. the United States is used as a framework for the narrative.Renée H. Guillory. Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy (Review) Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science, Vol. 27, No. 1 (1993), p. 161. The court case "resulted in an award of $2.66 million in damages to eight persons with leukemia, one with thyroid cancer, and another with breast cancer".Henry N. Wagner. Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy (Review), JAMA, 1989;262(5):699.
Philip Fradkin is an American environmentalist historian and journalist. Fradkin shared a Pulitzer Prize awarded to the metropolitan staff of the Los Angeles Times for coverage of the Watts riots in 1965.
See also Alvin C. Graves List of books about nuclear issues Nuclear fallout
References
External links NY Times review of Fallout Exposure of the American Population to Radioactive Fallout from Nuclear Weapons Tests