# Before the Fallout

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- Book: [Before the Fallout](https://www.bookquiver.com/diana-preston/before-the-fallout) ([Before the Fallout.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/diana-preston/before-the-fallout.md))
- Authors: [Diana Preston](https://www.bookquiver.com/diana-preston)
- Publisher: Berkley
- ISBN: 978-04-2520-789-5
- Pages: 416
- Published: 2006-03-07
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In 1898, Marie Curie first described a phenomenon she called " radioactivity." A half-century later, two physicists would stand before dawn in the New Mexico desert, slathering themselves with sunscreen-and...