Dale's Reviews > The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War

I walked out of the library with the weighty tome in my hand; I expected a long slog that would put me to sleep. Instead, I got a page turner! In 2014 I worked with Florian Oelck to produce "From Hiroshima to Fukushima to You" a handbook on radiation and health. We covered a lot of authors. i did the reading; he did the research. I had been a complete believer in the promise of nuclear power, but opposed to nuclear bombs in university & a science student. This book, "The Plutonium Files", tells a story that unfolded within my lifetime, a story of incredible pompousness, deception, and cruelty. The nuclear industry has always known about the effects of ionizing radiation. They minimize the danger of ionizing radiation and publicly ridicule their opponents. They own the media - the people they experimented upon then and today don't. As a youth, I was fascinated by nuclear physics, science fiction and atomic power - I still am but humans haven't yet matured to deal with it. We no longer have the urgency of a war so we have to slow down; to make it "green" we have to deal with the waste.