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''Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy'' is a 1989 book by Philip L. Fradkin which was republished in a second edition in 2004. The book is about the radiation exposure of people and their livestock living downwind from the nuclear weapons testing at the Nevada Test Site in the 1950s.〔Luther J. Carter. ( Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy (Review) ) ''The American Political Science Review'', Vol. 84, No. 2 (June 1990), pp. 657-658.〕 The case of ''Irene Allen et al. vs. the United States'' is used as a framework for the narrative.〔Renée H. Guillory. (Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy (Review) ) ''Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science'', Vol. 27, No. 1 (1993), p. 161.〕 The court case "resulted in an award of $2.66 million in damages to eight persons with leukemia, one with thyroid cancer, and another with breast cancer".〔Henry N. Wagner. (Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy (Review) ), ''JAMA'', 1989;262(5):699.〕 Philip Fradkin is an American environmentalist historian, journalist and author. Fradkin shared a Pulitzer Prize awarded to the metropolitan staff of the ''Los Angeles Times'' for coverage of the Watts riots in 1965.〔〔(Philip L. Fradkin Biography )〕 ==See also== * Nuclear fallout * Alvin C. Graves * List of books about nuclear issues 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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