The History of Fallout Prediction
Author | : Jay C. Willis |
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Total Pages | : 29 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Radioactive fallout |
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Author | : Jay C. Willis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 29 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Radioactive fallout |
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Author | : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy |
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Total Pages | : 1144 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Legislative hearings |
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Author | : Charles S. Shapiro |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2013-06-29 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 366203610X |
Radionuclides produced by past nuclear weapon test explosions comprise the largest source of anthropogenic radioactivity released into the earth's atmosphere to date. This volume presents data and models about the fate of the released radionuclides and their possible effects on human health. It is divided into the following three parts: - Source Term Studies; - Dose Reconstruction; - Ecological and Health Effects, and comprises both Western and formerly secret Soviet research studies, illuminates past and current research.
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Total Pages | : 760 |
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Genre | : Science |
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Author | : United States. Congress. Joint Committee ... |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2286 |
Release | : 1965 |
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Author | : |
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Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Environmental law |
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Author | : Barton C. Hacker |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 644 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780520083233 |
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.
Author | : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Special Subcommittee on Radiation |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1040 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Nuclear warfare |
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Author | : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2316 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Nuclear weapons |
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Author | : Federal Radiation Council (U.S.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Radiation |
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