Cancer Factories: America's Tragic Quest for Uranium Self-Sufficiency

by Howard Ball

For the first time, the sad story of America's uranium miners and the duplicity of our government is revealed. This expert study examines, in microcosm, the political, legal, social, medical, engineering, and ethical problems that emerged when American leaders developed a nuclear arsenal to contain the Soviet Union without considering the cost this could have on innocent lives. Medical and public health personnel, policymakers and political scientists,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313275661
• ISBN13: 9780313275661
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.6"