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Mortality and Morbidity of Members of the British Nuclear
Tests Veterans Association and the New Zealand Nuclear Tests
Veterans Association and their Families
SUE RABBITT ROFF
University of Dundee Centre for Medical Education
Published in Medicine, Conflict and Survival (Volume 15,
Supplement 1, July-September 1999)
"....because no disease is uniquely attributable to
radiation, scientists must rely on statistical methods to
detect its biological effects. By the time of the Salt Lake
City hearings scientists had firm evidence that high doses of
radiation caused serious forms of cancer, but even the most
sophisticated statistical methods still left great
uncertainty about the effects of exposure as low as those
attributed to fallout from weapons tests. Statistics however,
were cold and impersonal indicators of human suffering and
tragedy."
Richard Hewlett
Consideration of three proposals to conduct research on
possible health effects of radiation from nuclear weapons
testing in Arizona, Nevada, and Utah, and nuclear weapons
testing and studies related to health effects: an
historical suwey. National Institute of Health Publication
no. 8 1-507. Washington DC: NIH, 1986
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