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620 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 1996. $39.95. ISBN 0-19-510792-6.

The last time I devoted my summer holiday reading to a single book was when War and Peace was assigned in high school. In addition to bulk, the similarities between the Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments and Tolstoy's classic include a large cast of characters and a more than occasional tone of moral indignation. The action in both takes place in war and peace.

The Final Report is the work of a distinguished panel appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1994, mostly comprising academics in the medical and radiation sciences, law, ethics, and other . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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