The Five Series Study Mortality of Military Participants in U.S. Nuclear Weapons Tests (2000) / Chapter Skim
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3 An Overview of the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Testing Program
3 An Overview of the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Testing Program
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DoD military personnel (Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps members) , as well as civilian employees and contractors of the DoD and AEC, all participated in nuclear weapons tests (DNA, 1981~.
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The subset of five series was selected by the Medical Follow-up Agency's Subcommittee on Exposure at Tests of Nuclear Weapons as the focus of the 1985 National Research Council report Mortality of Nuclear Weapons Test Participants (Robinette et al., 1985~. These particular series were chosen to include similar numbers of Nevada Test Site and Pacific Proving Ground participants.
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Government as part of atmospheric nuclear weapons testing" (Gladeck and Johnson, 19964. Unexpectedly heavy fallout affected a small number of U.S.
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. REDWING REDWING was a 17-detonation nuclear weapons test series conducted at the Pacific Proving Ground in the spring and summer of 1956.
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ESTIMATES OF EXTERNAL DOSES Although we did not use NTPR dose estimates in this study's analyses, we present in Table 3-1 (see page 18) the official published NTPR summary external dose data for each of the five series we studied for reference.
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