Mortality of Veteran Participants in the CROSSROADS Nuclear Test

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J. Christopher Johnson, Susan Thaul, William F. Page, and Harriet Crawford, Editors; Committee on the CROSSROADS Nuclear Test, Institute of Medicine
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In 1946, approximately 40,000 U.S. military personnel participated in Operation CROSSROADS, an atmospheric nuclear test that took place at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Congress passed a law directing the Veterans Administration to determine whether there were any long-term ...
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Front Matter	i-xx
Summary	1-3	(skim)
Study Rationale and Overview	4-7	(skim)
Other Studies of the Human Health Effects of Radiation Exposure	8-10	(skim)
Epidemiology Primer	11-20	(skim)
Description of Operation Crossroads	21-23	(skim)
Data Sources for the Crossroads Study	24-26	(skim)
The Participant Cohort	27-30	(skim)
The Comparison Cohort	31-34	(skim)
Exposure Definition, Measurement, and Verification	35-43	(skim)
Mortality Ascertainment	44-48	(skim)
Characterization of the Cohorts and Analysis Plan	49-61	(skim)
Findings and Discussion	62-85	(skim)
Conclusions	86-88	(skim)
References	89-92	(skim)
Appendix A: National Association of Atomic Veterans (NAAV) Medical Survey	93-98	(skim)
Appendix B: Particpant Description (DNA memorandum dated July 11, 1994)	99-104	(skim)
Appendix C: Standardized Mortality Ratios	105-109	(skim)
Appendix D: Radiation Doses for CROSSROADS Participants and Exposure Surrogate Groups	110-113	(skim)
Appendix E: Verification of Completeness and Accuracy of the participant Roster	114-127	(skim)
Appendix F: Verification of Completeness and Accuracy of Mortality Ascertainment	128-139	(skim)

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In 1946, approximately 40,000 U.S. military personnel participated in Operation CROSSROADS, an atmospheric nuclear test that took place at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Congress passed a law directing the Veterans Administration to determine whether there were any long-term adverse health effects associated with exposure to ionizing radiation from the detonation of nuclear devices. This book contains the results of an extensive epidemiological study of the mortality of participants compared with a similar group of nonparticipants. Topics of discussion include a breakdown of the study rationale; an overview of other studies of veteran participants in nuclear tests; and descriptions of Operation CROSSROADS, data sources for the study, participant and comparison cohorts, exposure details, mortality ascertainment, and findings and conclusions.

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