first edition
1980 · Boston
by ROSENBERG, Howard L.
Boston: Beacon Press, 1980. First Edition. 8vo. 21cm x 15cm. Publisher's black cloth boards. Dustjacket. Titled and decorated in red to spine and front board, clean and handsome in a clean, bright dustjacket. A near fine copy. 192pp. Internally clean. A serious and meticulously researched account of the manner in which US servicemen were callously used as guinea pigs whilst assessing the effects of exposure to nuclear weapons during the height of the US's race for nuclear supremacy. The inspiration for the 1989 Martin Sheen/Emilio Estevez movie "Nightbreaker. (Inventory #: 63032)