Fallout from nuclear weapons tests.
Subtitle: Hearings before the Special Subcommittee on Radiation of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Congress of the United States, Eighty-sixth Congress, first session.
Publisher: Govt. Print. Off.
Published: 1959
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 2693
Subjects: Radioactive fallout; Nuclear weapons -- Testing; Radioactivity -- Physiological effect
Description: Focuses on impact of Soviet nuclear tests on levels of radioactive contamination in U.S. Includes numerous scientific papers analyzing type, distribution, and concentration levels of radioactivity attributable to fallout from weapon testing; v.2: Continuation of hearings on public health impact of radiation fallout due to nuclear weapons tests programs. v.3: Contains supplemental submitted materials on the problems of hotspots and short-lived isotopes of radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons tests.
Notes: Hearings held May 5-8, 1959.

Includes bibliographies.