Monitoring distant fallout: The role of the atomic energy commission health and safety laboratory during the pacific tests, with special attention to the events following bravo

Health Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 21-27

  Eisenbud, Merril ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atomic bomb; Fallout; Marshall Islands; Nuclear war

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; ATOMIC WARFARE; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; FALLOUT; LABORATORY TEST; MARSHALL ISLANDS; NUCLEAR SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOACTIVE WASTE;

EID: 0030914566     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-199707000-00002     Document Type: Article

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