[15] March 10 - Life atomic
Assigned reading:
"No new types of freaks," Science News Letter (4 November 1950): 290.
John Hershey, "Panic grass and feverfew," Hiroshima (1946/1985), 66-90. Take a few moments to read the opening lines from the original publication in The New Yorker (31 August 1946) as well. (See separate link below.)
Angela N. H. Creager, "Dividends," in Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine
(2013), 143-179.
Sakharov, "Nonthreshold biological effects," Memoirs, ch. 14.
Further reading:
E. B. Lewis, "Leukemia and ionizing radiation," Science 125 (1957): 965-972.
"Radiation and man," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists no. 1 (1958).
Laura Sembritzki, "Maiak 1957 and its aftermath: Radiation knowledge and ignorance in the Soviet Union," Jahrb. f. Geschichte Osteuropas 66 (2018): 45-64.
Luis Campos, Radium and the Secret of Life (2015).
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