Yale and the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission

Journal Article · · Yale J. Biol. Med.; (United States)

OSTI ID:5475908

Bowers, J Z

This is a description, based largely on personal discussions, of the contributions of men from the Yale University School of Medicine to the saga of the immediate and long-term studies on the medical effects of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They played key roles in the immediate studies of bomb effects, in the creation of long-term studies of delayed effects, and in elevating the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission after 1955 to a position of excellence in its studies and relations with the Japanese. The accumulation of the information presented in this paper derives from research for the preparation of the history of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission. In 1975, the commission was passed to Japanese leadership as the Radiation Effects Research Foundation.

• Research Organization: Rockefeller Foundation, New York, New York
• OSTI ID: 5475908
• Journal Information: Yale J. Biol. Med.; (United States), Journal Name: Yale J. Biol. Med.; (United States) Vol. 56:1; ISSN YJBMA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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