The Five Series Study: Mortality of Military Participants in U.S. Nuclear Weapons Tests

Institute of Medicine

doi:10.17226/9697

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The Five Series Study

Mortality of Military Participants in U.S. Nuclear Weapons Tests

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More than 200,000 U.S. military personnel participated in atmospheric nuclear weapons tests between 1945 and the 1963 Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Questions persist, such as whether that test participation is associated with the timing and causes of death among those individuals. This is the report of a mortality study of the approximately 70,000 soldiers, sailors, and airmen who participated in at least one of five selected U.S. nuclear weapons test series1 in the 1950s and nearly 65,000 comparable nonparticipants, the referents. The investigation described in this report, based on more than 5 million person-years of mortality follow-up, represents one of the largest cohort studies of military veterans ever conducted.

Contributor(s): Institute of Medicine; Medical Follow-up Agency; Committee to Study the Mortality of Military Personnel Present at Atmospheric Tests of Nuclear Weapons; Susan Thaul; William F. Page; Harriet Crawford; Heather O'Maonaigh

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Institute of Medicine. 2000. The Five Series Study: Mortality of Military Participants in U.S. Nuclear Weapons Tests. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/9697.

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232 pages | 6 x 9 |

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/9697

Chapters		skim
Front Matter	i-xxx
Summary	1-4
1 Study Rationale and Overview	5-7
2 Other Studies of Radiation Exposure of Military Personnel	8-12
3 An Overview of the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Testing Program	13-18
4 Data Sources	19-25
5 The Participant Cohort	26-31
6 The Referent Cohort	32-35
7 Exposure Definition and Measurement	36-41
8 Mortality Ascertainment	42-49
9 Analysis Structure	50-55
10 Description of Cohort Characteristics	56-60
11 Findings	61-72
12 Discussion	73-82
References	83-88
Appendix A: A Review of the Dosimetry Data Available in the Nuclear Test Personnel Review Program	89-152
Appendix B: National Association of Atomic Veterans Medical Survey	153-158
Appendix C: Epidemiology Primer	159-167
Appendix D: Verification of Completeness and Accuracy of the Participant Roster	168-182
Appendix E: Additional Analysis	183-197
Appendix F: Biographical Summaries	198-202

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