From 1942 through 1946, the United States conducted classified nuclear arms testing. Dubbed the “Manhattan Project,” the program employed more than 130,000 individuals across over 30 sites in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada during the latter part of World War II.
Pollard examines how the Manhattan Project and the associated Trinity Test serve as a poignant case study in the failure of emergency preparedness and a silent health disaster of extraordinary magnitude. The author underscores not only the long-term impacts of lacking healthcare precautions but also the ethnical implications of the project’s secrecy during wartime efforts.