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Neutron doses for Dod units/projects that participated in atmospheric nuclear test programs are assessed using computer codes ATR and ANISN. Units/projects whose personnel are identified as having received a neutron dose of at least 1 mrem are listed by operation and shot. Of the several thousand units/projects screened, 160 are identified as having received a free-field neutron exposure exceeding 1 mrem. Of these, approximately 75 percent are aircrews with the remainder being ground-based units, either scientific projects or military observer/maneuver units. Keywords: Nuclear Test Personnel Review; Neutron Dose; Radiation Transport.
From 1945 through 1962, the US atmospheric nuclear weapons testing program involved hundreds of thousands of military and civilian personnel, and some of them were exposed to ionizing radiation. Veterans' groups have since been concerned that their members' health was affected by radiation exposure associated with participation in nuclear tests and have pressured Congress for disability compensation. Several pieces of legislation have been passed to compensate both military and civilian personnel for such health effects. Veterans' concerns about the accuracy of reconstructed doses prompted Congress to have the General Accounting Office (GAO) review the dose reconstruction program used to estimate exposure. The GAO study concluded that dose reconstruction is a valid method of estimating radiation dose and could be used as the basis of compensation. It also recommended an independent review of the dose reconstruction program. The result of that recommendation was a congressional mandate that the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), a part of the Department of Defense, ask the National Research Council to conduct an independent review of the dose reconstruction program. In response to that request, the National Research Council established the Committee to Review the Dose Reconstruction Program of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency in the Board on Radiation Effects Research (BRER). The committee randomly selected sample records of doses that had been reconstructed by DTRA and carefully evaluated them. The committee's report describes its findings and provides responses to many of the questions that have been raised by the veterans.
250,000 U.S. servicemen were exposed to incredibly high levels of radiation between 1945 and 1962 - without their knowledge or consent. For the government, the experiment was simple: how would soldiers perform under the shadow of the bomb? For the many GI's who witnessed bomb tests, the results have been harrowing; more and more atomic veterans fall victim to incurable cancer and undiagnosed illnesses every year. This hard-hitting, very personal account exposes decades of official indifference, gross negligence, and contempt for life on the part of the U.S. government. Both the government and the armed forces have refused to take responsibility for the atomic veterans. Working with the National Association of Atomic Veterans, Thomas H. Saffer and Orville E. Kelly, victims of atomic testing themselves, did much to bring this situation to public attention. This book, horrifying in the facts it relates, is also a moving, even hopeful testament to the men who knew that the whole truth about nuclear testing had to be exposed.
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.
Do persons exposed to radiation suffer genetic effects that threaten their yet-to-be-born children? Researchers are concluding that the genetic risks of radiation are less than previously thought. This finding is explored in this volume about the children of atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasakiâ€"the population that can provide the greatest insight into this critical issue. Assembled here for the first time are papers representing more than 40 years of research. These documents reveal key results related to radiation's effects on pregnancy termination, sex ratio, congenital defects, and early mortality of children. Edited by two of the principal architects of the studies, J. V. Neel and W. J. Schull, the volume also offers an important comparison with studies of the genetic effects of radiation on mice. The wealth of technical details will be immediately useful to geneticists and other specialists. Policymakers will be interested in the overall conclusions and discussion of future studies.