Multiple exposures : chronicles of the radiation age /
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| Author / Creator: | Caufield, Catherine |
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| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
| Imprint: | New York : Perennial Library, c1989. |
| Description: | xii, 304 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1019898 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Part 1.
- 1. Discovery
- 2. The First Standards
- 3. Radioactivity
- 4. The Dial Painters
- 5. Setting Limits on Radium
- Part 2.
- 6. Building the Bomb
- 7. Getting to Know the Bomb
- 8. Postwar Standards
- 9. Uranium Fever
- 10. Operation Crossroads
- 11. The Proving Ground
- 12. Fallout
- Part 3.
- 13. 1956 Standards
- 14. Medicine After the Bombnbsp;
- 15. The Peaceful Atom
- 16. Confusion and Acrimony
- 17. A House Divided
- 18. 1977 Standards
- Part 4.
- 19. Natural Radiation
- 20. Multiple Exposures
- 21. Keeping Track
- 22. Unnecessary Exposures
- 23. Out of Control Epilogue Chronology
- Glossary
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
