When Scientists Were Gods

In these days, it is hard to remember a time more than a half-century ago when scientists were gods, honored and trusted both to defend and heal us, creating ultimate weapons as well as the polio vaccine. We took our shots because we trusted the experts. We trusted them to test atomic weapons, aboveground at first, because we weren't aware of cancers among the "downwinders" and knew that the US was in a weapons race. This book is the inside story of kiloton to megaton atomic weapons being e...