Read The Plutonium Files Online
Authors: Eileen Welsome
Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments.
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Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1995.
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Armed Forces Special Weapons Project.
Radiological Defense: The Principles of
Military Defense Against Atomic Weapons.
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Byrnes, Victor A.
Operation Buster, Project 4.3, Flash Blindness.
Oak Ridge: AEC Technical Information Service, March 1952 (CIC 64562).
Byrnes, Victor A.
Operation Snapper, Project 4.5, Flash Blindness.
Oak Ridge: AEC Technical Information Service, March 1953 (CIC 49283).
Byrnes, Victor A., D. V. L. Brown, H. W. Rose, and Paul Cibis.
Operation Upshot-Knothole, Project 4.5, Ocular Effects of Thermal Radiation From Atomic Detonation—Flashblindness and Chorioretinal Burns.
March–June 1953 (CIC 34219).
Clinton Laboratories.
Minutes of Project Council Policy Meeting.
Oak Ridge, TN: DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information, Jan. 19, 1944 (CS-1262).
Crowley, J., H. Lanz, K. Scott, and J. G. Hamilton.
A Comparison of the Metabolism of Plutonium (Pu 238) in Man and the Rat.
Oak Ridge, TN: DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information, May 31, 1946 (CH-3589).
Defense Nuclear Agency.
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Public Affairs Office Fact Sheet, Jan. 14, 1994.
Defense Nuclear Agency.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Occupation Forces.
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Defense Nuclear Agency.
Sandstone.
Public Affairs Office Fact Sheet, n.d.
Defense Nuclear Agency.
Operation Ranger.
Public Affairs Office Fact Sheet, Feb. 26, 1982.
Defense Nuclear Agency.
Greenhouse.
Public Affairs Office Fact Sheet, n.d.
Defense Nuclear Agency.
Operation Buster-Jangle.
Public Affairs Office Fact Sheet, June 21, 1982.
Defense Nuclear Agency.
Operation Tumbler-Snapper.
Public Affairs Office Fact Sheet, June 14, 1982.
Defense Nuclear Agency.
Operation Upshot-Knothole.
Public Affairs Office Fact Sheet, Jan. 11, 1982.
Defense Nuclear Agency.
Operation Castle.
Public Affairs Office Fact Sheet, Dec. 1, 1982.
Defense Nuclear Agency.
Teapot Series.
Public Affairs Office Fact Sheet, Nov. 23, 1981.
Defense Nuclear Agency.
Operation Redwing.
Public Affairs Office Fact Sheet, Jan. 20, 1983.
Defense Nuclear Agency.
Plumbbob Series.
Public Affairs Office Fact Sheet, Sept. 15, 1981.
Defense Nuclear Agency.
Hardtack.
Public Affairs Office Fact Sheet, n.d.
Defense Nuclear Agency.
Operation Hardtack II.
Public Affairs Office Fact Sheet, Dec. 3, 1982.
Defense Nuclear Agency.
Dominic I.
Public Affairs Office Fact Sheet, n.d.
Defense Nuclear Agency.
Operation Dominic II.
Public Affairs Office Fact Sheet, Jan. 31, 1983.
Defense Nuclear Agency.
Operation Crossroads: 1946.
U.S. Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Tests. Nuclear Test Personnel Review. Report DNA 6032F, May 1, 1984.
Defense Nuclear Agency.
Operation Ranger: Shots Able, Baker, Easy, Baker-2, Fox, 25 January–6 February 1951.
U.S. Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Tests. NTPR. Report DNA 6022F, Feb. 26, 1982.
Defense Nuclear Agency.
Shots Able to Easy: The First Five Tests of the Buster-Jangle Series, 22 October–5 November 1951.
U.S. Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Tests. NTPR. Report DNA 6024F, June 22, 1982.
Defense Nuclear Agency.
Shots Sugar and Uncle: The Final Tests of the Buster-Jangle Series, 19
November–29 November 1951.
U.S. Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Tests. NTPR. Report DNA 6025F, June 23, 1982.
Defense Nuclear Agency.
Operation Greenhouse, 1951.
U.S. Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Tests. NTPR. Report DNA 6034F, June 15, 1983.
Defense Nuclear Agency.
Operation Ivy, 1952.
U.S. Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Tests. NTPR. Report DNA 6036F, Dec. 1, 1982.
Defense Nuclear Agency.
Operation Teapot, 1955.
U.S. Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Tests. NTPR. Report DNA 6009F, Nov. 23, 1981.
Defense Nuclear Agency.
Operation Redwing, 1956.
U.S. Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Tests. NTPR. Report DNA 6037F, Aug. 1, 1982.
Defense Nuclear Agency.
Plumbbob Series, 1957.
U.S. Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Tests. NTPR. Report DNA 6005F, Sept. 15, 1981.
Defense Nuclear Agency.
Operation Hardtack I, 1958.
U.S. Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Tests. NTPR. Report DNA 6038F, Dec. 1, 1982.
Defense Nuclear Agency.
Operation Dominic I, 1962.
U.S. Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Tests. NTPR. Report DNA 6040F, Feb. 1, 1983.
Defense Nuclear Agency.
Operation Teapot: Manned Penetrations of Atomic Clouds, Project 2.8b.
Washington, D.C.: Defense Nuclear Agency, Sept. 1, 1980 (CIC 12800).
Department of Defense.
Report on Search for Human Radiation Experiment Records 1944–1994.
Vol. 1. Springfield VA: Department of Commerce, Technology Administration, National Technical Information Service, 1997.
Department of Energy.
Human Radiation Experiments: The Department of Energy Roadmap to the Story and the Records.
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Department of Defense.
Human Radiation Experiments Associated with the U.S. Department of Energy and Its Predecessors.
Springfield, VA: Department of Commerce, Technology Administration, National Technical Information Service, 1995 (DOE/EH-0491).
Department of Defense. Office of Environmental Management.
Closing the Circle on the Splitting of the Atom.
Washington, D.C.: Department of Energy, 1995.
Department of Defense. Office of Inspector General.
Inspection of the Secretary of Energy’s Foreign Travel.
Oak Ridge, TN: Office of Scientific and Technical Information, 1996 (DOE/IG-0397).
Glasstone, Samuel, and Philip J. Dolan, eds.
The Effects of Nuclear Weapons.
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1977.
Government Accounting Office.
Radiation Exposures for Some Cloud Sampling Personnel Need to Be Reexamined.
Washington, D.C: U.S. Government Accounting Office, 1987 (GAO/RCED-87–134).
Government Accounting Office.
Examples of Post World War II Radiation Releases at U.S. Nuclear Sites.
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Human Experimentation: An Overview on Cold War Era Programs.
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Information on DOE’s Human Tissue Analysis Work.
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Government Accounting Office.
Unsubstantiated DOE Travel Payments.
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Government Accounting Office.
Some Unsubstantiated Payments for the Secretary’s Foreign Travel.
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Government Accounting Office.
Energy Department Trade Missions: Authority, Results, and Management Issues,
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Gulley, Wayne T., Robert D. Metcalf, Mathew R. Wilson, and Jerome A. Hirsch.
Operation Plumbbob, Project 4.2, Evaluation of Eye Protection Afforded by an Electromechanical Shutter.
Headquarters, Field Command, Defense Atomic Support Agency, Sandia Base, Albuquerque, NM, April 29, 1960 (CIC 6308).
Hill, J. H., Gloria Chisum, R. A. Richardson.
Operation Dominic, Christmas Series, Project 4.2, Photoelectric and Psychophysical Measures of Weapons Flashes.
Washington, D.C.: Defense Nuclear Agency, Sept. 1, 1985 (CIC 51093).
Human Radiation Interagency Working Group.
Building Public Trust: Actions to Respond to the Report of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments.
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1997 (DOE/EH-04542).
Lalos, George, ed.
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Langham, Wright, ed.
Radiobiological Factors in Manned Space Flight.
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Langham, Wright, Samuel H. Bassett, Payne S. Harris, and Robert E. Carter.
Distribution and Excretion of Plutonium Administered Intravenously to Man.
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Levin, William C., Martin Schneider, and Herbert Gerstner. “Initial Clinical Reaction to Therapeutic Whole-Body X-Radiation.” School of Aviation Medicine, Randolph AFB, TX, 1960.
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Medical Follow-up Agency, Institute of Medicine.
Mortality of Veteran Participants in the Crossroads Nuclear Test.
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Metallurgical Project, Health Division.
Report for Month Ending Feb. 29, 1944.
Oak Ridge, TN: DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information, March 1944 (CH-1459).
Miller, Lowell S., Gilbert H. Fletcher, and Herbert Gerstner. “Systematic and Clinical Effects Induced in 263 Cancer Patients by Whole-Body X-Irradiation.” School of Aviation Medicine, Randolph AFB, TX, 1957.
Nickson, J. J., ed.
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Parker, Herbert.
Status of Product Monitoring by Health-Physics Section.
Oak Ridge, TN: DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information, Jan. 2, 1945 (CN-1892).
Pinson, Ernest A., Kermit C. Kaericher, James E. Banks, and John d’Hord.
Operation
Redwing—Project 2.66A, Early Cloud Penetrations.
Washington, D.C.: Defense Nuclear Agency, March 20, 1987 (CIC No. 0051870).
Russell, E. R., and J. J. Nickson.
The Distribution and Excretion of Plutonium in Two Human Subjects.
Argonne, IL: Argonne National Laboratory, Oct. 2, 1946 (CH-3607).
Saenger, Eugene L.
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Stannard, J. Newell.
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U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
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