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AMERICA'S RADIATION VICTIMS: The Hidden Files

By CLIFFORD T. HONICKER; CLIFFORD T. HONICKER RUNS AN INDEPENDENT RESEARCH PROJECT ON RADIATION POLICY IN KNOXVILLE, TENN.
Published: November 19, 1989
LEAD: BLUE GLOW SHROUDED THE ROOM FOR AN INSTANT, THEN was gone. In that moment, Louis Slotin knew he had received a lethal dose of radiation from the core of the plutonium bomb he was testing.

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