Mortality of veteran participants in the Crossroads nuclear test /
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 ef...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Washington, D.C. :
National Academy Press,
1996.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Study rationale and overview
- Other studies of the human health effects of radiation exposure
- Epidemiology primer
- Description of Operations Crossroads
- Data sources for the Crossroads study
- The participant cohort
- The comparison cohort
- Exposure definition, measurement, and verification
- Mortality ascertainment
- Characterization of the cohorts and analysis plan
- Findings and discussion
- Conclusions.