Download or read book Observer s Report of Atomic Test at Nevada Proving Ground written by Frank P. Zeidler and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reports and Documents written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on with total page 1788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 2322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Semiannual Report of the Atomic Energy Commission written by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 2032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elements of Controversy written by Barton C. Hacker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unforgettable congressional hearings in 1978 revealed that fallout from American nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s had overexposed hundreds of soldiers and other citizens to radiation. Faith in governmental integrity was shaken, and many people have assumed that such overexposure caused great damage. Yet important questions remain--the most controversial being: did the radiation overexposure in fact cause the cancers and birth defects for which it has been blamed? Elements of Controversy is the result of a decade of exhaustive research in AEC documentary records and the full clinical and epidemiological literature on radiation effects. More concerned with uncovering the historical story than with assigning blame, Barton Hacker concludes that every precaution was taken by the AEC to avoid harming test participants or bystanders. And, he points out, the biomedical literature suggests that these precautions worked. Yet top officials in Washington--for whom the success of nuclear weapons was of overriding importance--had asserted that testing involved no risks at all. Discrepancies between unverifiable government claims and the revelations that some actual risk was present explain the origins and angry persistence of the controversies, Hacker argues. The Department of Energy delayed publication of Hacker's study for five years, and while his controversial book is sure to draw objections from both sides of the radiation-hazard debates, it will provide a much-needed guide to understanding their polemics. Unforgettable congressional hearings in 1978 revealed that fallout from American nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s had overexposed hundreds of soldiers and other citizens to radiation. Faith in governmental integrity was shaken, and many people have assumed that such overexposure caused great damage. Yet important questions remain--the most controversial being: did the radiation overexposure in fact cause the cancers and birth defects for which it has been blamed? Elements of Controversy is the result of a decade of exhaustive research in AEC documentary records and the full clinical and epidemiological literature on radiation effects. More concerned with uncovering the historical story than with assigning blame, Barton Hacker concludes that every precaution was taken by the AEC to avoid harming test participants or bystanders. And, he points out, the biomedical literature suggests that these precautions worked. Yet top officials in Washington--for whom the success of nuclear weapons was of overriding importance--had asserted that testing involved no risks at all. Discrepancies between unverifiable government claims and the revelations that some actual risk was present explain the origins and angry persistence of the controversies, Hacker argues. The Department of Energy delayed publication of Hacker's study for five years, and while his controversial book is sure to draw objections from both sides of the radiation-hazard debates, it will provide a much-needed guide to understanding their polemics.
Download or read book Hearings and Reports on Atomic Energy written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Intermediate Report of the Committee on Government Operations written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Five Series Study written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-03-02 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Cue for Survival written by United States. Federal Civil Defense Administration and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists written by and published by . This book was released on 1953-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.
Download or read book Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists written by and published by . This book was released on 1953-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.
Download or read book Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists written by and published by . This book was released on 1993-10 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Report to Congress written by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 1482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dugway Proving Ground Biological Aerosol Test Facility Construction and Operation D New Alternative Action to Construct and Operate a Consolidated Life Sciences Test Facility written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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