Title Mortality of veteran participants in the Crossroads nuclear test / Medical Follow-up Agency, Institute of Medicine ; by J. Christopher Johnson [and others] ; with oversight from the Institute of Medicine, Committee on the Crossroads Nuclear Test

Published Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 139 pages) : illustrations Contents 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Print version record Subject Operation Crossroads, Marshall Islands, 1946 -- Health aspects Radioactive fallout -- Health aspects Nuclear warfare. Veterans. Radioactive Fallout -- adverse effects Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced -- mortality Leukemia, Radiation-Induced -- mortality Nuclear Warfare Veterans nuclear wars. veterans. MEDICAL -- Infectious Diseases. HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Contagious. Veterans Nuclear warfare Radioactive fallout -- Health aspects Kernwaffentest Strahlenschaden Veteran Marshall Islands Bikini Form Electronic book Author Johnson, J. Christopher. Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on the Crossroads Nuclear Test. LC no. 96071162 ISBN 0585148953 9780585148953

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