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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 2. februar 2001 / Time Line February 2, 2001

1. Februar 2001, 3. Februar 2001

02/02/2001
The Bomb's Chicago Fallout : U.S. Says '40s Research Put Thousands at High Risk
By Sam Roe and Jeremy Manier, Chicago Tribune
Herbert Anderson was a major figure in the race for the atomic bomb, a pioneering physicist who made history at the University of Chicago in 1942 when he helped create the world's first controlled nuclear chain reaction. But Anderson paid a heavy price for such achievements.
He contracted a rare lung disease from handling beryllium, an extraordinarily toxic metal critical to nuclear weapons production. Before he died, his lungs were so damaged he couldn't breathe without an oxygen tank, and his bones were so brittle he once broke two fingers just by shaking someone's hand.

02/02/2001

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