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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Nolan, James L. (1962-....)
Titre(s) : Atomic doctors [Texte imprimé] : conscience and complicity at the dawn of the nuclear age / James L. Nolan, Jr.
Publication : Cambridge (Mass.) : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (294 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Index
"After his father passed away, James Nolan's mother gave him a box of materials that
his dad had kept private. To Nolan's complete surprise, the contents revealed the
role his grandfather had played as a doctor in the Manhattan Project. Dr. Nolan, it
turned out, had been a significant figure. A talented radiologist, he cared for the
scientists on the Project, helped organize the safety and evacuation plans for the
Trinity Test at Alamogordo, escorted the "Little Boy" bomb from Los Alamos to Japan,
and was one of the first Americans to enter the irradiated ruins of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. The documents set Nolan on a hunt for more information about his grandfather
and more generally about the conflicted role that medical personnel played in the
early years of atomic testing. The result is a compelling history of the dawn of the
atomic age as seen through the eyes of men and women torn between their duty and desire
to win the war and their oath to protect life. Nolan follows his grandfather and medical
colleagues as they seek to maximize safety while serving leaders determined to minimize
delays, and as they consider the ethics of ending the deadliest of all wars with the
most lethal of all weapons. The result, Nolan shows, was a very human pattern of caution,
co-optation, and complicity. A vital and vivid account of a largely unknown chapter
in atomic history, Delivering Little Boy is also a profound meditation on the professional
and moral dilemmas that ordinary people face in extraordinary times"
Sujet(s) : Nolan, James F. (1915-1983)
Éthique médicale -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
Bombe atomique -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
Bombe atomique -- Japon -- 20e siècle
Projet Manhattan
Hiroshima (Japon) -- 1945 (Bombardement)
Nagasaki (Japon) -- 1945 (Bombardement)
Indice(s) Dewey :
174.2 (23e éd.) = Déontologie des professions médicales et de la santé
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-0-674-24863-2 (rel.). - ISBN 0674248635
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb466464101
Notice n° :
FRBNF46646410
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Life at Los Alamos ; The Trinity Test ; Delivering Little Boy ; Hiroshima ; Tokyo
and Nagasaki ; Managing radiation and the radiation narrative ; Bikini and Enewetak
; Dr. Nolan and the quandary of technique ; 1983
