Operation Crossroads - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Operation Crossroads write by Jonathan M. Weisgall. This book was released on 1994. Operation Crossroads available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Weisgall (law, Georgetown U.) is the legal counsel for the people of Bikini and provides the first non-government account of the two atomic bomb tests on the Pacific island in 1946. He thinks that they were not a good idea, and argues that the government knew that at the time. He was also the executive producer of the film Radio Bikini. Includes lots of photographs. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Assessment of the Scientific Information for the Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program
Assessment of the Scientific Information for the Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Assessment of the Scientific Information for the Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program write by National Research Council. This book was released on 2005-10-01. Assessment of the Scientific Information for the Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) was set up by Congress in 1990 to compensate people who have been diagnosed with specified cancers and chronic diseases that could have resulted from exposure to nuclear-weapons tests at various U.S. test sites. Eligible claimants include civilian onsite participants, downwinders who lived in areas currently designated by RECA, and uranium workers and ore transporters who meet specified residence or exposure criteria. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), which oversees the screening, education, and referral services program for RECA populations, asked the National Academies to review its program and assess whether new scientific information could be used to improve its program and determine if additional populations or geographic areas should be covered under RECA. The report recommends Congress should establish a new science-based process using a method called "probability of causation/assigned share" (PC/AS) to determine eligibility for compensation. Because fallout may have been higher for people outside RECA-designated areas, the new PC/AS process should apply to all residents of the continental US, Alaska, Hawaii, and overseas US territories who have been diagnosed with specific RECA-compensable diseases and who may have been exposed, even in utero, to radiation from U.S. nuclear-weapons testing fallout. However, because the risks of radiation-induced disease are generally low at the exposure levels of concern in RECA populations, in most cases it is unlikely that exposure to radioactive fallout was a substantial contributing cause of cancer.
United States Nuclear Tests
United States Nuclear Tests - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook United States Nuclear Tests write by . This book was released on 2000. United States Nuclear Tests available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This document lists chronologically and alphabetically by name all nuclear tests and simultaneous detonations conducted by the United States from July 1945 through September 1992. Two nuclear weapons that the United States exploded over Japan ending World War II are not listed. These detonations were not "tests" in the sense that they were conducted to prove that the weapon would work as designed (as was the first test near Alamogordo, New Mexico on July 16, 1945), or to advance nuclear weapon design, or to determine weapons effects, or to verify weapon safety as were the more than one thousand tests that have taken place since June 30,1946. The nuclear weapon (nicknamed "Little Boy") dropped August 6,1945 from a United States Army Air Force B-29 bomber (the Enola Gay) and detonated over Hiroshima, Japan had an energy yield equivalent to that of 15,000 tons of TNT. The nuclear weapon (virtually identical to "Fat Man") exploded in a similar fashion August 9, 1945 over Nagaski, Japan had a yield of 21,000 tons of TNT. Both detonations were intended to end World War II as quickly as possible. Data on United States tests were obtained from, and verified by, the U.S. Department of Energy's three weapons laboratories -- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California; and Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico; and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Additionally, data were obtained from public announcements issued by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and its successors, the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration, and the U.S. Department of Energy, respectively.
The Testing Charade
The Testing Charade - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Testing Charade write by Daniel Koretz. This book was released on 2017-08-31. The Testing Charade available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. America's leading expert in educational testing and measurement openly names the failures caused by today's testing policies and provides a blueprint for doing better. 6 x 9.
Mortality of Veteran Participants in the CROSSROADS Nuclear Test
Mortality of Veteran Participants in the CROSSROADS Nuclear Test - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mortality of Veteran Participants in the CROSSROADS Nuclear Test write by Institute of Medicine. This book was released on 1996-11-11. Mortality of Veteran Participants in the CROSSROADS Nuclear Test available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1946, approximately 40,000 U.S. military personnel participated in Operation CROSSROADS, an atmospheric nuclear test that took place at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Congress passed a law directing the Veterans Administration to determine whether there were any long-term adverse health effects associated with exposure to ionizing radiation from the detonation of nuclear devices. This book contains the results of an extensive epidemiological study of the mortality of participants compared with a similar group of nonparticipants. Topics of discussion include a breakdown of the study rationale; an overview of other studies of veteran participants in nuclear tests; and descriptions of Operation CROSSROADS, data sources for the study, participant and comparison cohorts, exposure details, mortality ascertainment, and findings and conclusions.
