Trisha T. Pritikin is a lawyer and president of the Board of Directors of Consequences of Radiation Exposure (CORE) Museum and Archives, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to increase public awareness of the human toll of exposure to ionizing radiation. She lives in Berkeley, California.
The discussion of health effects from exposure to radioactive
contaminants tends to focus on acute effects--cancers and death
tolls. Pritikin shows in heart-breaking detail the stockpile of
health problems from exposure to radioactivity and how painfully
these chronic health problems dismantle lives. A passionate and
carefully researched account of the failed fight for atomic
justice." - Kate Brown, author of Plutopia: Nuclear Families,
Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium
Disasters and Manual for Survival: An Environmental History of the
Chernobyl Disaster
"Given the current political climate--North Korea's nuclear threat,
the current US administration's provocation of North Korea, the
potential unraveling of Iran's nuclear deal, and the ongoing
tension between India and Pakistan--Trisha Pritikin's The Hanford
Plaintiffs is a timely addition to literature that has addressed
the health harm caused by radiation exposure downwind of weapons'
production and testing sites as well as from the use of nuclear
weapons in warfare; from uranium mining, milling, or transport;
from nuclear power plant accidents; and from leaking nuclear waste.
Pritikin's work stands out, not only in its description of the
plight of the people--called downwinders--in and around the Hanford
site but also in its disclosure of the callous disregard of the US
government for the innocent citizens it was supposed to protect." -
Yuki Miyamoto, PhD, associate professor of religious studies,
DePaul University, and author of Beyond the Mushroom Cloud
"The Hanford Plaintiffs is an urgent book for our times. We think
we know about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on the one hand, and Three
Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima on the other. We might
imagine that these places stand for events safely consigned to the
past or that the production of nuclear weapons and nuclear power
are separate affairs. Now we are encountering, once again, cavalier
talk about the use of nuclear weapons. The Hanford Plaintiffs opens
our eyes to the reality of how the atomic age has played long-term,
continuing havoc with whole communities, the environment, and
democratic principles in the United States and throughout the world
by presenting the life stories of the downwinders of the Hanford
Nuclear Reservation, where the plutonium for the Nagasaki bomb was
produced. Pritikin lays out her material methodically, providing
the scientific, medical, legal, and historical components important
to readers' full understanding." - Norma Field, PhD, professor
emerita, University of Chicago, East Asian Languages and
Civilizations, and author of In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan
at Century's End
"The Hanford Plaintiffs is an extraordinary and unique exposé of
the human results of deliberate releases of huge quantities of
radioactive isotopes from the Hanford reactors and nuclear complex
over many years of operation." - Helen Caldicott, MD
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