JB14494 An Atlantic Monthly Press Book : Little, Brown and Company Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. 1948 Hard Cover Very Good Tan paper on boards. 168 pp. with Appendix 182 pp. Owners bookplate on the fep. just under the inscription by author, which is dated '50. Now in protective wrap. David John Bradley was an American writer, surgeon, and politician. His best-selling 1948 book No Place to Hide, a memoir of the Bikini Atoll atomic bomb tests, alerted the world to the dangers of radioactive fallout from nuclear weapon explosions. From the Review Time Magazine "From his plane window 20 miles off, Radiological Monitor Bradley saw the huge column of clouds, dense, white, boiling up through the strato-cumulus, and a few minutes later he and his plane were flying toward Bikini Atoll and the evil mushrooming column. Bradley's job was terrifyingly simple. As one of the doctors attached to the Bikini experiment, he had to go into the bomb region with Geiger counters and other instruments, and tell the Army & Navy which areas were too "hot" to be handled safely by their investigators. No Place to Hide is, in essence, an excellent list of the places in which Bradley's Geiger counters burst into song. They sang over the ship's watercoolers and evaporators, over the food, coffee, soap bars and even the cockroaches of the storerooms. They sang particularly loud over the tarry caulking of the deck planks and spots of rust. The tuna fish made them sing, and so did the coral and the very sands of the lagoon. Oil streaks that had floated miles away remained menacingly hot. So insignificant was the salubrious effect of salt water that even the rocky ledges of neighboring atolls clung to their radioactivity in the teeth of foaming breakers. The novelty and importance of his published diary are not in his conclusions about the bomb ("There is no real defense"), but in the cold-blooded documentation of his daily dealings with it." $16.50USD
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