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Book Proceedings for the Symposium on Public Health Aspects of Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Explosives  Las Vegas  Nevada  April 7 11  1969

Download or read book Proceedings for the Symposium on Public Health Aspects of Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Explosives Las Vegas Nevada April 7 11 1969 written by Southwestern Radiological Health Laboratory and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings for the Symposium on Public Health Aspects of Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Explosives Sponosred by the Southwestern Radiological Health Laboratory

Download or read book Proceedings for the Symposium on Public Health Aspects of Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Explosives Sponosred by the Southwestern Radiological Health Laboratory written by United States Office of Education and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceeding for the Symposium on Public Health Aspects of Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Explosives Sponsered by the Southwestern Radiological Health Laboratory  Las Vegas  Nevada  April 7 Through 11  1969

Download or read book Proceeding for the Symposium on Public Health Aspects of Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Explosives Sponsered by the Southwestern Radiological Health Laboratory Las Vegas Nevada April 7 Through 11 1969 written by United States. Public Health Service and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings for the Symposi  m on Public Health Aspects of Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Explosives

Download or read book Proceedings for the Symposi m on Public Health Aspects of Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Explosives written by Southwestern Radiological Health Laboratory (Las Vegas, Nevada) and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings

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Book Underground Uses of Nuclear Energy

Download or read book Underground Uses of Nuclear Energy written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nuclear Science Abstracts

Download or read book Nuclear Science Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hearings  Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Public Works

Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Public Works written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Elements of Controversy

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  • Author : Barton C. Hacker
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1994-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780520083233
  • Pages : 644 pages

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.