Deborah Derrick

Half Lives Deborah Derrick

This is the true story of a radioactive ship that the U. S. Navy knowingly operated for years, with 70 sailors living aboard. Within this lies the story of a man who escaped a brutal family only to be deployed to an atomic waste dumping ship; a commanding officer who tried to protect his men and the navy from toxic exposure; a highly disturbing, decades-long effort by the U. S. military to deny radiation claims; and a torqued veteran's family that would stop at nothing to get its due.