PREFACE
The signing of the Limited Test Ban Treaty in September
1963 marked the close of 14 years of atmospheric nuclear
weapons testing spread over an 18-year period. However, it
did not mark the end of a need for further information and
interpretation of data concerning the health aspects of nuclear
weaponstesting.
This pamphlet is concerned principally with the health
aspects
of
nuclear
weapons
testing
in
the
atmosphere.
Nothing new is contained herein and much has been omitted
for brevity. The pamphlet does attempt to bring together the
highlights of a large body of information and thus in some small
way mayassist in further enlightenment of a complex subject.
AMAA ze
GORDON M. DUNNING
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Washington, D.C.