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In 1998, Congress
asked CDC and NCI to see if it would be feasible to estimate
whether Americans have suffered health effects from nuclear
weapons tests in the atmosphere. The weapons tests were done before
1963 by the United States and other countries. CDC and NCI found
that such a study could be conducted, and made preliminary
estimates of the health effects to the public on the basis of
the information that was readily available. CDC and NCI provided a
progress report to Congress in 2000, which included a
technical report describing the research.
The CDC/NCI work builds on a study completed earlier by NCI on health effects from
atmospheric weapons testing done at the Nevada Test Site during
the Cold War.
In 2002 CDC asked the
National Academy of Sciences (NAS), a group of scientific
experts, whether they thought CDC and NCI had used the best
scientific methods for the study. NAS issued a report in
February 2003 that made several recommendations for improving
the report of the study and suggested that no further study of global fallout be done at this time. For more information, you may
wish to review the following reports:
>>Progress
Report on the Feasibility Study of the Health Consequences to
the American Population of Nuclear Weapons Tests Conducted by
the United States and Other Nations (PDF, 749 Kb)
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A
Feasibility Study of the Health Consequences to the American
Population From Nuclear Weapons Tests Conducted by the United
States and Other Nations (PDF, 33015 Kb)
>>The
National Academy of Sciences Review of the CDC-NCI Draft Report
on a Feasibility Study of the Health Consequences to the
American Population from Nuclear Weapons Tests Conducted by the
United States and Other Nations
>>Estimated
Exposures and Thyroid Doses Received by the American People from
Iodine-131 in Fallout Following Nevada Atmospheric Nuclear Bomb
Tests
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