Top officials in Washington are now promoting jitters about Iran’s nuclear activities, while media outlets amplify the message. A confrontation with Tehran is on the second-term Bush agenda. So, we’re encouraged to obliquely think about the unthinkable.
But no one can get very far trying to comprehend the enormity of nuclear weapons. They’ve shadowed human consciousness for six decades. From the outset, deception has been key...
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Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America’s Experience With Atomic Radiation (Delacorte Press, 1982), a book by Harvey Wasserman and Norman Solomon, is online in html and as a PDF (scroll to the bottom of the page).