Unfortunately, the glossary and index are incomplete, weakening the overall presentation and the reader's ability to find information quickly. The second of these books, that by Gofman, focuses almost exclusively on the induction of cancer in humans as a result of low-level ionizing radiation. The book is well organized, clear, exhaustively detailed, and comprehensively referenced. As a result, lay persons or students of other disciplines will be able to master the information with some effort. Through the use of raw data, graphs, tables, charts, and calculations, the reader is taken step by step through the complexities of physics, statistics, and epidemiology.
Some sections are highly technical.
The book is organized into 25 major chapters, each of which lays the scientific foundation for the next, into which it flows, although some chapters could also stand alone. The 12 supporting chapters provide additional analysis or examples of key points made in the main body of the book. There are frequent cross-references from one section to another. Extensive direct quotations from other reports facilitate an understanding of the views of other analysts. Gofman devotes 13 chapters to a detailed analysis of the atomic-bomb data base, and he relies heavily on those findings and other evidence in humans in deriving the conclusions listed above.