A Review of the Dose Reconstruction Program of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.U264 2003-094456 0-309-08902-6 A review of the dose reconstruction program of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (or DTRA) is a combat support agency of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) whose primary function is to analyze potential threats to the United States, both homeland and abroad, and provide contingency plans for all such . Title main entry. National Research Council of the National Academies. National Academies Press, [c]2003 399 p. $54.00 In response to concerns about military personnel and civilian exposure to radiation from the US atmospheric atmospheric /at·mos·pher·ic/ (at?mos-fer´ik) of or pertaining to the atmosphere. atmospheric of or pertaining to the atmosphere. nuclear weapons testing program of 1945-62, Congress charged an independent committee to review the Dose Reconstruction Program. This report details the testing program and the committee's review process, and offers recommendations for improving dose reconstruction and the overall veterans compensation program. Appendices ap·pen·di·ces n. A plural of appendix. include documents reviewed, names of hearing experts, names of veterans whose files were reviewed, analyses of participant exposure, and a glossary A term used by Microsoft Word and adopted by other word processors for the list of shorthand, keyboard macros created by a particular user. See glossaries in this publication and The Computer Glossary. . The cover photo shows soldiers watching an atomic bomb atomic bomb or A-bomb, weapon deriving its explosive force from the release of atomic energy through the fission (splitting) of heavy nuclei (see nuclear energy). The first atomic bomb was produced at the Los Alamos, N.Mex. detonation in 1951 in Nevada. |
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