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Author Saffer, Thomas H., and Orville E. Kelly Title Countdown Zero Binding Hardcover Book Condition Very Good in Very Good dj Edition First Edition Publisher New York G. P. Putnam's Sons (c.1982) ISBN Number 0-399-12685-6 / 9780399126857 Seller ID 11883 [mild soiling to page edges, a bit of underlining here and there in the text; jacket a little rubbed, a bit wrinkled, still very presentable]. Examination of the long-term effects of the atomic bomb tests of the 1950s, by two men who were involved in those events. Kelly was commander of Japtan Island in the Marshall Islands, where he witnessed 22 nuclear blasts during 1958; later diagnosed with cancer, he went on to become "the first person in American history to win a pension after discharge for a disability incurred while on active duty." Saffer had been a newly commissioned marine lieutenant when he participated in three detonations in Nevada in 1957.
Nuclear Testing Radiation Atomic Bomb
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