DOE Office of Legacy Management: 'Atomic Doctors' Provides Context to Doctors' Conflicts in Manhattan Project
September 14, 2021
September 14, 2021
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 -- The Department of Energy's Office of Legacy Management issued the following news on Sept. 13, 2021:
As scientists ramped up their plans to conduct the first test of an atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert, planned for mid-July 1945, a small cadre of physicians rushed to complete a report on the possible health effects of the blast.
Capt. James F. Nolan, MD, had been put in charge of health and safety monitoring at the so-called Trinity test, . . .
As scientists ramped up their plans to conduct the first test of an atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert, planned for mid-July 1945, a small cadre of physicians rushed to complete a report on the possible health effects of the blast.
Capt. James F. Nolan, MD, had been put in charge of health and safety monitoring at the so-called Trinity test, . . .