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(Contributions in Medical Studies. No. 37.) By Howard Ball. 188 pp. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1993. $49.95. ISBN 0-313-27566-1.

Cancer Factories traces the effect of our government's conscious policy decision to promote nuclear self-sufficiency at the expense of U.S. uranium miners immediately after World War II and throughout the 1950s and 1960s. The Atomic Energy Commission was responsible for crafting this policy and for overseeing every aspect of it, including health and safety considerations. The entire process took place in the context of grave concern about national security, in utter secrecy, and without the remotest shred of accountability. The result was predictably grim: an epidemic of lung cancer among Mormon and Native American workers otherwise at very low risk. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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