Health Aspects of Nuclear Weapons Testing
Author | : U.S. Atomic Energy Commission |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Nuclear weapons |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : U.S. Atomic Energy Commission |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Nuclear weapons |
ISBN | : |
Author | : U.S. Atomic Energy Commission |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Nuclear weapons |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Estados Unidos Atomic Energy Commission |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Institute of Medicine |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 107 |
Release | : 1995-07-17 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0309176115 |
Over the past several decades, public concern over exposure to ionizing radiation has increased. This concern has manifested itself in different ways depending on the perception of risk to different individuals and different groups and the circumstances of their exposure. One such group are those U.S. servicemen (the "Atomic Veterans" who participated in the atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons at the Nevada Test Site or in the Pacific Proving Grounds, who served with occupation forces in or near Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or who were prisoners of war in or near those cities at the time of, or shortly after, the atomic bombings. This book addresses the feasibility of conducting an epidemiologic study to determine if there is an increased risk of adverse reproductive outcomes in the spouses, children, and grandchildren of the Atomic Veterans.
Author | : IPPNW International Commission to Investigate the Health and Environmental Effects of Nuclear Weapons Production |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780945257349 |
Author | : United States. Committee on Federal Research into the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Health risk assessment |
ISBN | : |
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 81 |
Release | : 2003-03-25 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0309087139 |
This report is a review of the draft feasibility study that was issued at the request of Congress by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Over 500 atmospheric nuclear-weapons tests were conducted at various sites around the world during 1945-1980. As public awareness and concern mounted over the possible health hazards associated with exposure to the fallout from weapons testing, a feasibility study was initiated by CDC and NCI to assess the extent of the hazard. The CDC-NCI study claims that the fallout might have led to approximately 11,000 excess deaths, most caused by thyroid cancer linked to exposure to iodine-131. The committee noted that CDC and NCI used the best available data to estimate exposure and health hazards. The committee does not recommend an expanded study of exposure to radionuclides other than 131I since radiation doses from those radionuclides were much lower than those from 131I. It also recommended that CDC urge Congress to prohibit the destruction of all remaining records relevant to fallout.
Author | : Institute of Medicine |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2000-03-02 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0309172594 |
More than 200,000 U.S. military personnel participated in atmospheric nuclear weapons tests between 1945 and the 1963 Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Questions persist, such as whether that test participation is associated with the timing and causes of death among those individuals. This is the report of a mortality study of the approximately 70,000 soldiers, sailors, and airmen who participated in at least one of five selected U.S. nuclear weapons test series1 in the 1950s and nearly 65,000 comparable nonparticipants, the referents. The investigation described in this report, based on more than 5 million person-years of mortality follow-up, represents one of the largest cohort studies of military veterans ever conducted.
Author | : Gordon M. Dunning |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Nuclear weapons |
ISBN | : |
This pamphlet is concerned principally with the health aspects of nuclear weapons testing in the atmosphere. Nothing new is contained herein and much has been omitted for brevity. The pamphlet does attempt to bring together the highlights of a large body of information and thus in some small way may assist in further enlightenment of a complex subject.