From a humanitarian perspective, any measure to reduce the risk of nuclear weapons being used is to be welcomed. Indeed, preventing the use of nuclear weapons is of the utmost urgency. Although much is already known about the humanitarian and environmental impacts of nuclear weapons, there is a need for more research in certain areas. In particular, we need to understand more about the long-term humanitarian and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, as well as the sex- and age-differentiated and, potentially, intergenerational consequences of ionizing radiation.
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Search Search. The Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement have brought together experts and government representatives in Geneva for a one-day expert meeting on the humanitarian consequences and the growing risks of nuclear weapons. People exposed to I, especially during childhood, may have an increased risk of thyroid disease, including thyroid cancer many years later. Thyroid cancer is uncommon and is usually curable.
NCI has more information about I and thyroid disease at its Web site at www. However all studies have shown the risk to be very small. Scientists continue to study the risks from exposure to these isotopes and others. In , Congress asked CDC and NCI to see if it would be feasible to estimate whether Americans have suffered health effects from nuclear weapons tests in the atmosphere.
The weapons tests were done before by the United States and other countries. CDC and NCI found that such a study could be conducted, and made preliminary estimates of the health effects to the public on the basis of the information that was readily available.
CDC and NCI provided a progress report to Congress in , which included a technical report describing the research. NAS issued a report in February that made several recommendations for improving the report of the study and suggested that no further study of global fallout be done at this time. For more information, you may wish to review the following reports:.
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Radiation and Your Health. Section Navigation. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Syndicate. Radioactive Fallout from Global Weapons Testing. It consists of weapon debris, fission products, and, in the case of a ground burst, radiated soil. Fallout particles vary in size from thousandths of a millimeter to several millimeters. Much of this material falls directly back down close to ground zero within several minutes after the explosion, but some travels high into the atmosphere.
This material will be dispersed over the earth during the following hours, days and months. Fallout is defined as one of two types: early fallout, within the first 24 hours after an explosion, or delayed fallout, which occurs days or years later. Most of the radiation hazard from nuclear bursts comes from short-lived radionuclides external to the body; these are generally confined to the locality downwind of the weapon burst point.
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