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Secret fallout: Low-level radiation from Hiroshima to Three Mile Island
Very Good Paperback McGraw Hill Company, 1981. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 306 pages. "This book is an expanded verison of Lowel-Level Radiation, firs published in 1972." " In this book Dr. Sternglass presents the evidence he has for 20 years battled to bring before the public-cumulative, devastating effects of low-level radiation on our health." VERY GOOD SOFTCOVER, Lower corner stain on the lasst three pages of book. Else a clean tight copy..
306 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 1981
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23.7k books151 followersMcGraw-Hill Education traces its history back to 1888 when James H. McGraw, co-founder of the company, purchased the American Journal of Railway Appliances. He continued to add further publications, eventually establishing The McGraw Publishing Company in 1899. His co-founder, John A. Hill, had also produced several technical and trade publications and in 1902 formed his own business, The Hill Publishing Company.
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In 1909 both men agreed upon an alliance and combined the book departments of their publishing companies into The McGraw-Hill Book Company. John Hill served as President, with James McGraw as Vice-President. 1917 saw the merger of the remaining parts of each business into The McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, Inc.
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February 11, 2020
Dr. Ernest Sternglass' ground-breaking book (1972, expanded 1981) needed a better title, more to the point: e.g. Nuclear bomb tests killed toddlers, infants, and the unborn.
Many of the early chapters are devoted to his argument that a "silent genocide" of infant mortality was going on in the U.S. during the Cold War, with infant deaths being statistically evident, by epidemiological investigation, as caused by U.S. nuclear testing, especially between 1945 and 1963, but also by "venting" from other supposedly contained tests, like the later Baneberry test that also created a large radioactive plume, affecting people thousands of miles away, and likely all over the northern hemisphere, if not the whole globe.
It was originally published in 1972 under the title Low-Level Radiation with an introduction by Nobel Laureate George Wald; the first 14 chapters were in the first edition, and the last few chapters, including a discussion of Three Mile Island radioactive releases and danger to public health, were added later. Now available as free download, in PDF format: https://ratical.org/radiation/SecretF...
Just scroll down to the bottom of the above webpage, and you'll find the link for the PDF file, 183 pages [613K]
Also covered: There's no "safe threshold" for radiation exposure; the idea was invented by the pro-nuclear lobbyists and by the U.S. military trying to minimize their culpability for exposing civilian "downwinders" to inordinate amounts of low-level radiation from atmospheric testing (above-ground nuclear bomb tests), when in Sternglass's expert option, these tests represented the worst biological insult invented by man to the human species. The military just didn't want to admit, not in the U.S., USSR, China, Britain or France, that in addition to the huge radioactive flash from such atomic tests, the bomb also created huge amounts of radioactive fallout, and these fallout particles are worse because they get inhaled or ingested and cause a chronic long-term radioactive exposure, leading to fetal death, or infant death or disease in early childhood or later life, leading to millions of "excess deaths" (deaths that would not have occurred were it not for radioactive releases from nuclear fission).
Dr. Sternglass sums up the arguments in his book in this video interview, where he also recounts some of the struggles involved in getting such an unpopular thesis published, in scientific journals as well as in the mainstream media:
"GLOBAL NUCLEAR COVER UP: Ernest Sternglass Berkeley 2006"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLw2I...
"What we are really doing is killing our own," concludes Dr. Sternglass.
(You might also like the book by Harvey Wassermann and Norman Solomon, in fact entitled KILLING OUR OWN, published 1982.)
Many of the early chapters are devoted to his argument that a "silent genocide" of infant mortality was going on in the U.S. during the Cold War, with infant deaths being statistically evident, by epidemiological investigation, as caused by U.S. nuclear testing, especially between 1945 and 1963, but also by "venting" from other supposedly contained tests, like the later Baneberry test that also created a large radioactive plume, affecting people thousands of miles away, and likely all over the northern hemisphere, if not the whole globe.
It was originally published in 1972 under the title Low-Level Radiation with an introduction by Nobel Laureate George Wald; the first 14 chapters were in the first edition, and the last few chapters, including a discussion of Three Mile Island radioactive releases and danger to public health, were added later. Now available as free download, in PDF format: https://ratical.org/radiation/SecretF...
Just scroll down to the bottom of the above webpage, and you'll find the link for the PDF file, 183 pages [613K]
Also covered: There's no "safe threshold" for radiation exposure; the idea was invented by the pro-nuclear lobbyists and by the U.S. military trying to minimize their culpability for exposing civilian "downwinders" to inordinate amounts of low-level radiation from atmospheric testing (above-ground nuclear bomb tests), when in Sternglass's expert option, these tests represented the worst biological insult invented by man to the human species. The military just didn't want to admit, not in the U.S., USSR, China, Britain or France, that in addition to the huge radioactive flash from such atomic tests, the bomb also created huge amounts of radioactive fallout, and these fallout particles are worse because they get inhaled or ingested and cause a chronic long-term radioactive exposure, leading to fetal death, or infant death or disease in early childhood or later life, leading to millions of "excess deaths" (deaths that would not have occurred were it not for radioactive releases from nuclear fission).
Dr. Sternglass sums up the arguments in his book in this video interview, where he also recounts some of the struggles involved in getting such an unpopular thesis published, in scientific journals as well as in the mainstream media:
"GLOBAL NUCLEAR COVER UP: Ernest Sternglass Berkeley 2006"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLw2I...
"What we are really doing is killing our own," concludes Dr. Sternglass.
(You might also like the book by Harvey Wassermann and Norman Solomon, in fact entitled KILLING OUR OWN, published 1982.)
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