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Folding paper cranes : an atomic memoir / by Leonard Bird.
Author
Bird, Leonard
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c2005.
Description
xvi, 152 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
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VE25.B57 A3 2005
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Bird, Leonard
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United States Marines
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Biography
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Nuclear weapons
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Testing
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Nevada
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Cancer
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Patients
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United States
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Biography
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Atomic bomb victims
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United States
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Atomic bomb
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Health aspects
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Summary note
"A bronze monument - the Tower of a Thousand Cranes - stands in Hiroshima's International Peace Park, mute testimony to Sadako Sasaki, a young victim of the atomic bomb whose radiation-induced leukemia led to her death after she had folded only six hundred cranes." "In Leonard Bird's haunting memoir, Sadako's monument becomes a touchstone for his own experiences with cancer and the bomb. Exposed to radiation during aboveground detonations at the Nevada Test Site in the 1950s, Bird must find a way to make peace not only with his past but with a future shadowed by nuclear proliferation. In committing his story to paper, Bird gains, with each reader, another paper crane."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-152).
ISBN
0874808243 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2005000304
OCLC
57452778
RCP
C - S
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