Source: Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi, at http://www.sharonghamari.com/bibliographies/aecrad.html
 

Bibliography: AEC and Human Exposure to Radiation
The Worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War

Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments , 1996, Oxford University Press.

"The linear no-threshold model : is it still valid for the prediction of dose-effects and risks from low level radiation exposure? : Proceedings of a conference to honor Victor Bond in his 75th year, November 1994," Health physics, 70(6), June 1996: 775-882.

L. R. Anspaugh et al., 1990, "Historical estimates of external gamma exposure and collective external gamma exposure from testing at the Nevada Test Site : II. Test series after Hardtack II, 1958, and summary," Health physics, 59(5), November: 525-532.

John Beatty, 1993, "Scientific collaboration, internationalism, and diplomacy: the case of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission"; Journal of the History of Biology, 26: 205-231.

Joseph Boland, 2002, "The Cold War legacy of regulatory risk analysis: The Atomic Energy Commission and radiation safety,"; Dissertation Abstracts Internationa-Al, 63: 2351.

Daniel Ford, 1982, The cult of the atom: The secret papers of the Atomic Energy Commission, Simon & Schuster.

Philip L. Fradkin, 1989, Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy, University of Arizona Press.

Barton C. Hacker, 1992, "Radiation safety, the AEC, and nuclear weapons testing," Public Historian, 14(1): 31-53.

Barton C. Hacker, 1994, Elements of controversy: The Atomic Energy Commission and radiation safety in nuclear weapons testing, 1947-1974, University of California Press.

Richard G. Hewlett, Oscar E. Anderson, Jr., 1962, The New World, 1939-1946: A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, Vol. 1, Pennsylvania State University Press.

Richard G. Hewlett, Francis Duncan, 1962, Atomic Shield, 1947-1952: A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, Vol. 2, Pennsylvania State University Press.

Richard G. Hewlett, Jack M. Holl, 1989, Atoms for Peace and War, 1953-1961: Eisenhower and the Atomic Energy Commission, Vol. 3, University of California Press.

J. Christopher Jolly, 2002, "Linus Pauling and the scientific debate over fallout hazards," Endeavour, 26(4): 149-153.

Ronald Kathren, 1996. "Pathway to a Paradigm: The Linear Nonthreshold Dose-Response Model in Historic Context," Health Physics, 70(5), May.

M. Susan Lindee, 1994, Suffering Made Real: American Science and the Survivors at Hiroshima, University of Chicago Press.

J. O. Lubenau, 1999, "Unwanted radioactive sources in the public domain: a historical perspective," Health physics, 76(2), Supplement, February: S16-S22.

Ralph H. Luttts, 1985, "Chemical fallout: Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring", radioactive fallout, and the environmental movement," Environmental Review, 9: 211-225.

J. L. Lyon, 1999, "Nuclear weapons testing and research efforts to evaluate health effects on exposed populations in the United States," Epidemiology, 10(5), September: 557-560.

    
T. F. McCraw, 1998, "The aborted resettlement of Bikini Atoll: how and why this occurred," Health physics, 75(2), August: 205-207.

George T. Mazuzan,  J. Samuel Walker, 1985, Controlling the atom: The beginnings of nuclear regulation, 1946-1962, University California Press.

R. W. Miller, 1995, "Delayed effects of external radiation exposure : a brief history,” Radiation research, 144(2), November: 160-169.

Jonathan Moreno, 1999, Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans, Freeman.

Mark Parascandola, 2002, “Uncertain Science and a Failure of Trust: The NIH Radioepidemiologic Tables and Compensation for Radiation-Induced Cancer,” Isis, 93: 559-584.

Frank W. Putnam, 1993-94, “ Hiroshima and Nagasaki revisited: the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission and the Radiation Effects Research Foundation,” Perspectives in biology and medicine, 37: 515-545.

T. Reynolds, 2002, Final Report of Hanford Thyroid Disease Study Released, Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 94(14), July 17: 1046-1048.

M. A. Robkin, 1992, "Experimental release of 131I : the Green Run," Health physics, 62(6), June: 487-495.

Sue Rabbitt Roff, 1998, "Puff the magic dragon: how our understanding of fallout, residual and induced radiation evolved over fifty years of nuclear weapons testing," Medicine, conflict and survival, 14(2), April-June: 106-119.

W. Ruhm et al, 1998, "The dosimetry system DS86 and the neutron discrepancy in Hiroshima: historical review, present status and future options," Radiation and environmental biophysics, 37(4), December: 293-310.

Robert Seidel, 1986, "A Home for Big Science: The Atomic Energy Commission's Laboratory System," Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 16: 135-175.

Robert Seidel, 2001, "The national laboratories of the Atomic Energy Commission in the early Cold War," Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 32(1):145-162.

Richard T. Sylves, 1987, The nuclear oracles: A political history of the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission, 1947-1977, Iowa State University Press.

Maya Todeschini, 1999, "Illegitimate sufferers : A-bomb victims, medical science, and the Government," Daedalus, 128(2), Spring: 67-100.

Vandercook, 1986, "Making the Very Best of the Very Worst; The Human Effects of Nuclear Weapons, Report of 1956," International Security, 11(1): 184-195.

J. Samuel Walker, 1994, The Atomic Energy Commission and the politics of radiation protection, 1967-1971," Isis, 85: 57-78.

J. Samuel Walker, 2000, Permissible Dose: A History of Radiation Protection in the 20 th Century, University of California Press.

E. S. Watkins, 2001, "Radioactive Fallout and Emerging Environmentalism: Cold War Fears and Public Health Concerns, 1954-1963"; Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 228: 291-306.

Eileen Welsome, 1999, The plutonium files : America's secret medical experiments in the Cold War, Dial Press.

Gilbert Whittemore, 2001, "The multidimensional chess of science and society: a postwar debate over plutonium exposure,"; in Science, History, and Social Activism: a tribute to Everett Mendelsohn, Allen Garland, Roy MacLeod, eds., Kluwer Academic Publishers.

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