Audiobook9 hours
Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
Written by James L. Nolan, Jr.
Narrated by Adam Lofbomm
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
4.5/5
()
About this audiobook
After his father died, James L. Nolan, Jr., took possession of a box of private family materials. To his surprise, the small secret archive contained a treasure trove of information about his grandfather's role as a doctor in the Manhattan Project. Dr. Nolan, it turned out, had been a significant figure. A talented ob-gyn radiologist, he cared for the scientists on the project, organized safety and evacuation plans for the Trinity test at Alamogordo, escorted the "Little Boy" bomb from Los Alamos to the Pacific Islands, and was one of the first Americans to enter the irradiated ruins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Participation on the project challenged Dr. Nolan's instincts as a healer. He and his medical colleagues were often conflicted, torn between their duty and desire to win the war and their oaths to protect life. Atomic Doctors follows these physicians as they sought to maximize the health and safety of those exposed to nuclear radiation, all the while serving leaders determined to minimize delays and maintain secrecy. Called upon both to guard against the harmful effects of radiation and to downplay its hazards, doctors struggled with the ethics of ending the deadliest of all wars using the most lethal of all weapons. Their work became a very human drama of ideals, co-optation, and complicity.
Participation on the project challenged Dr. Nolan's instincts as a healer. He and his medical colleagues were often conflicted, torn between their duty and desire to win the war and their oaths to protect life. Atomic Doctors follows these physicians as they sought to maximize the health and safety of those exposed to nuclear radiation, all the while serving leaders determined to minimize delays and maintain secrecy. Called upon both to guard against the harmful effects of radiation and to downplay its hazards, doctors struggled with the ethics of ending the deadliest of all wars using the most lethal of all weapons. Their work became a very human drama of ideals, co-optation, and complicity.
Related to Atomic Doctors
Related audiobooks
Meltdown: Nuclear disaster and the human cost of going critical Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Chasing Heisenberg: The Race for the Atom Bomb Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Enola Gay: Mission to Hiroshima Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Executing the Rosenbergs: Death and Diplomacy in a Cold War World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Safely to Earth: The Men and Women Who Brought the Astronauts Home Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5NPR American Chronicles: Exploring Space Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPlutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Saved at the Seawall: Stories from the September 11 Boat Lift Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Soviet Nuclear Weapons Program: The History and Legacy of the USSR's Efforts to Build the Atomic Bomb Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hiroshima Maidens Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGerms: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds Of The 1918 Influenza Epidemic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Apollo 11: An AP Special Anniversary Edition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Day the World Ended: The Mount Pelee Disaster: May 7, 1902 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nuclear Fusion: The Race to Build a Mini-Sun on Earth Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Pentagon: A History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Medical For You
The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Roxane Gay & Everand Originals: My Year of Psychedelics: Lessons on Better Living Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All That Remains: A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Big Lie: How One Doctor’s Medical Fraud Launched Today’s Deadly Anti-Vax Movement Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health With Facts and Feminism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Soul Of Shame: Retelling the Stories We Believe About Ourselves Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When I Come Home Again: 'A page-turning literary gem' THE TIMES, BEST BOOKS OF 2020 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Intuitive Eating Workbook: 10 Principles for Nourishing a Healthy Relationship with Food Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Psychology of the Unconscious Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Chronic Resilience: 10 Sanity-Saving Strategies for Women Coping with the Stress of Illness Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The House of God Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Summary: Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor: Key Takeaways, Summary & Analysis Included Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Gene: An Intimate History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Cancer Code: A Revolutionary New Understanding of a Medical Mystery Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Year of the Nurse: A 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Atomic Doctors
Rating: 4.25 out of 5 stars
4.5/5
4 ratings0 reviews