Author: United States. Congress. House. Interior and Insular Affairs Committee. 260:Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
To Provide Authorizations for the Trust Territory Government and for the People of Bikini Atoll
Author: United States. Congress. House. Interior and Insular Affairs Committee. 260:Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
To Provide Authorizations for the Trust Territory Government and for the People of Bikini Atoll
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Territorial and Insular AffairsPublisher:
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Category : Bikini Atoll (Marshall Islands)
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular AffairsPublisher:
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1158
Book Description
Elements of Controversy
Author: Barton C. HackerPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520083233
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Unforgettable congressional hearings in 1978 revealed that fallout from American nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s had overexposed hundreds of soldiers and other citizens to radiation. Faith in governmental integrity was shaken, and many people have assumed that such overexposure caused great damage. Yet important questions remain--the most controversial being: did the radiation overexposure in fact cause the cancers and birth defects for which it has been blamed? Elements of Controversy is the result of a decade of exhaustive research in AEC documentary records and the full clinical and epidemiological literature on radiation effects. More concerned with uncovering the historical story than with assigning blame, Barton Hacker concludes that every precaution was taken by the AEC to avoid harming test participants or bystanders. And, he points out, the biomedical literature suggests that these precautions worked. Yet top officials in Washington--for whom the success of nuclear weapons was of overriding importance--had asserted that testing involved no risks at all. Discrepancies between unverifiable government claims and the revelations that some actual risk was present explain the origins and angry persistence of the controversies, Hacker argues. The Department of Energy delayed publication of Hacker's study for five years, and while his controversial book is sure to draw objections from both sides of the radiation-hazard debates, it will provide a much-needed guide to understanding their polemics. Unforgettable congressional hearings in 1978 revealed that fallout from American nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s had overexposed hundreds of soldiers and other citizens to radiation. Faith in governmental integrity was shaken, and many people have assumed that such overexposure caused great damage. Yet important questions remain--the most controversial being: did the radiation overexposure in fact cause the cancers and birth defects for which it has been blamed? Elements of Controversy is the result of a decade of exhaustive research in AEC documentary records and the full clinical and epidemiological literature on radiation effects. More concerned with uncovering the historical story than with assigning blame, Barton Hacker concludes that every precaution was taken by the AEC to avoid harming test participants or bystanders. And, he points out, the biomedical literature suggests that these precautions worked. Yet top officials in Washington--for whom the success of nuclear weapons was of overriding importance--had asserted that testing involved no risks at all. Discrepancies between unverifiable government claims and the revelations that some actual risk was present explain the origins and angry persistence of the controversies, Hacker argues. The Department of Energy delayed publication of Hacker's study for five years, and while his controversial book is sure to draw objections from both sides of the radiation-hazard debates, it will provide a much-needed guide to understanding their polemics.
Appropriations, budget estimates, etc
Author: Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1414
Book Description
Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House".
United States Statutes at Large
Author: United StatesMonthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1814
Book Description
South Pacific Bibliography
Author: Report on Federal Administration and Structure of Indian Affairs
Author: United States. American Indian Policy Review Commission. Task Force Three, Federal Administration and Structure of Indian AffairsPublisher:
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description