radiation victims

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Bone Thief

A Body Farm Novel
2011
Dr. Bill Brockton has been called in on a seemingly routine case, to exhume a body and obtain a bone sample for a DNA paternity test. But when the coffin is opened, Brockton and his colleagues, including his graduate assistant Miranda Lovelady, are stunned to see that the corpse has been horribly violated.

Atomic farmgirl

growing up right in the wrong place
2003
Teri Hein chronicles her childhood in the Palouse wheatlands of rural Washington during the 1950s and 1960s, focusing on how her way of life and livelihood were threatened by progress.

Bones of betrayal

2009
Dr. Bill Brockton teams up with a local librarian to investigate a possible link between the murder of a retired scientist, high levels of radiation detected in a number of Oak Ridge residents, and the Manhattan Project.

The plutonium files

America's secret medical experiments in the Cold War
1999
An expose of the fifty-year cover-up surrounding the experiments conducted by Manhattan Project medical doctors on eighteen unsuspecting patients who were secretly injected with plutonium; with information about additional experiments American citizens were subjected to during the postwar years without their knowledge.

They never knew

the victims of nuclear testing
1996
Examines the American government's role in developing nuclear weapons and conducting atomic testing, focusing on the effects of radiation on humans and the victims' attempts to sue the government for compensation.
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