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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Prologue
P ART O NE: T HE “P RODUCT ”
1. The Acid Taste of Plutonium
2. The Rad Lab
3. 1942: The Met Lab
4. A Tolerable Dose
5. The Manhattan Project Is Launched
6. Plutonium Rising
7. Planning the Experiment
8. Ebb Cade
9. Next in Line: Arthur and Albert
10. Trinity Site
11. A “Small Piece of the Sun”
12. The Quest Continues
13. The Rochester Production Line
14. A Misdiagnosed Housewife
15. Chicago: Upping the Dose
16. Postwar Berkeley: The Final Injections
P ART T WO: A TOMIC U TOPIA
17. At a Crossroads
18. Comings and Goings
19. The AEC and the Politics of Secrecy
20. Shields Warren: “Patriotic Enough to Lie”
21. “Wrapped in the Flag”
22. The Vanderbilt Women
23. The Fernald Boys
P ART T HREE: T HE P ROVING G ROUND
24. Stalin’s Labor Day Surprise
25. The First GI Guinea Pigs
26. “Hot Particles”
27. Scorched Earth Maneuvers
28. Citizen Volunteers
29. The Cloud Samplers
30. Dispatch from Ground Zero
31. The Inverted Mushroom
32. Body-snatching Patriots
P ART F OUR: T HE B UCHENWALD T OUCH
33. “Mice or Men?”
34. Houston’s “Paperclip” Doctor
35. Cincinnati’s Battlefield
36. The Chambers of Oak Ridge
37. Captive Volunteers: Prisoners in Oregon and Washington
38. The Plutonium Experiment: Phase Two
39. “Tragic Deaths Full of Pity and Sorrow”
40. “We’re Coming Clean”
41. Revelations and Tribulations
42. January 1994: The Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments
43. Harvest of Sorrow
44. Closing the Book
45. A Presidential Apology
46. “Never Again”
47. Whitewashes, Red Herrings, and Cold Cash
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Major Sources Used in Notes
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