Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age
A particle physicist on the decades before the Manhattan Project, including how dangerous the early radiation work was and how many of its practitioners it killed.
Close is a particle physicist, and covers the science before the Manhattan Project, running from the 1890s to the 1940s. He is direct about how physically dangerous the early radiation work was, and how many of the people doing it died prematurely of cancers that were almost certainly caused by the experiments themselves.
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Tyler Cowen
A good look at the underlying scientific history behind nuclear, most of all in the pre-Manhattan project years. I had not sufficiently realized how dangerous this research was, and how many of the people died prematurely from cancer, quite possibly from radiation exposure.
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