radiation reassessed

Read the books and articles
Cancer Risk of Low-Level Exposure, Marvin Goldman, Science, 3/29/96, pp. 1821-22 (see response letter in Science, 5/3/96).

Caring for Survivors of the Chernobyl Disaster, Armin Weinberg, et al, Journal of the American Medical Association, 8/2/95, pp. 408-412.

Effects of Low Doses and Low Dose Rates of External Ionizing Radiation: Cancer Mortality among Nuclear Industry Workers in Three Countries, Elizabeth Cardis et al, Radiation Research, 5/95, pp. 117-132.

The Good News About Radiation, John Lenihan, 1993, Cogito Books, Madison, Wisconsin.

Health Effects of Low-Level Radiation, Sohei Kondo, Medical Physics Publishing, Madison, Wisconsin, 1992.

Medical effects of ionizing radiation, Fred A. Mettler, Arthur C. Upton, 2nd ed., Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 1995

Studies of the Mortality of Atomic Bomb Survivors, Report 12, Part 1. Cancer: 1950-1990, Donald Pierce, et al, Radiation Research, 146: 1-27 (1996).

Ten Years of the Chornobyl Era, Yuri Shcherbak, Scientific American, 4/96, pp. 44-49.

Understanding Radiation, Bjorn Wahlstrom, Medical Physics Publishing Co., Madison, Wisconsin, 1995.

Surf the web
The atomic bombings

Here's a huge group of horrific photos from Hiroshima. And some more.

And here are some startling photos from Nagasaki.

The Radiation Effects Research Foundation is still studying the medical aftermath of the blasts.

Here's Hiroshima's home page.

The A-bomb WWW project has lots of info on the explosions.

Here's where the first A-bomb was tested.

The Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb in warfare.

The Sadako/Paper-Crane Project promotes international understanding.

Here's where you can see and touch outdated atomic ordinance. Seriously...

The U.S. Department of Energy maintains the Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource (CEDR) on radiation exposures.

Chernobyl

An update on grim conditions around the Chernobyl reactor.

Health effects of the accident.

The International Conference: One Decade After Chernobyl.

Health physics sites

The journal of Radiation Research.

Dr. Gloor's DNA fix-it shop more or less.

New York has Times Square. Health Physics has this home page. Check it out.


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