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Nuclear Weapons: The Final Pandemic Preventing Proliferation and Achieving Abolition

Nuclear Weapons: The Final Pandemic Preventing Proliferation and Achieving Abolition. Changing views of the biological effects of low-level ionizing radiation. Steve Wing Associate Professor of Epidemiology University of North Carolina School of Public Health.

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Nuclear Weapons: The Final Pandemic Preventing Proliferation and Achieving Abolition

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  1. Nuclear Weapons: The Final PandemicPreventing Proliferation and Achieving Abolition Changing views of the biological effects of low-level ionizing radiation Steve Wing Associate Professor of Epidemiology University of North Carolina School of Public Health

  2. Brenner et al., 2003, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

  3. Oak Ridge National Laboratory External Radiation and Cancer Deaths, 1943-1990 Lifetime Cumulative Dose Dose at Ages 45+ Based on Richardson & Wing, Int J Epidemiol, 28:428-436, 1999

  4. Estimated association between cumulative radiation dose (3-yr lag) and mortality due to leukemia. Richardson & Wing, American Journal of Epidemiology, 2007

  5. Association between mortality due to leukemia among male SRS workers and cumulative radiation dose accrued in 3 exposure time windows

  6. Excess relative risk per Sv for leukemia excluding CLL for A-bomb survivors, workers included in the IARC 15-country study, and for SRS workers * Derived via a linear ERR model adjusted for age, calendar period, and city

  7. Alice Stewart’s model of exposure age and cancer risk Stewart, A. Environmental Health Perspectives, 108:93-96, 2000

  8. Pierce et al. Radiation Research, 167:735-741, 2007

  9. Alternative Descriptions of Age-at-Exposure Effects on Solid Cancer Incidence, Life Span Study, 1958-1998 age at exposure Preston et al., Radiation Research, 168:1-64, 2007

  10. Prevalence Odds Ratios for “Multifactorial Disease” in Relation to Parental Radiation Doses:Clinical Health Study of Children of A-bomb Survivors RERF, Report on the Health Effects Study of the Children of A-bomb Survivors, March, 2007

  11. Source: US Department of Energy, Closing the Circle on the Splitting of the Atom, 1996

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