My hopes in starting this site is give another collection of the soldiers' stories and the lasting effects on their bodies, their family, and genetic mutation after the USA dropped nuclear bombs a few miles from thousands of US soldiers at Camp Desert Rock (alias Area 22, Nevada Test site, Camp Mercury, [Operation Plumbbob, i.e. Shot Smoky]) Nevada in 1950s. Plus I hope to provide this as collection of resources available for research and my personal reflections upon the event and its legacy.
These veterans have remained silent because of the Atomic Secrets Act that was lifted 51 years later in 1996.
Websites about the Nuclear Testing:
Studies:
These veterans have remained silent because of the Atomic Secrets Act that was lifted 51 years later in 1996.
Websites about the Nuclear Testing:
- Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at the Nevada Test Site
- National Association of Atomic Veterans (Sageland, Houston, TX) history
- Military & Veterans: Politics for the deserving: National Association of Atomic Veterans
- Children of the Atomic Veterans
- Atomic Testing Museum, video
- Nuclear test database Johnston archive
- What You Always Wanted To Know About Nuclear Weapons But Were Afraid To Ask, Jeremy Bernstein 2009
- Toxic Agents: Atomic Radiation Exposure
- The Nuclear Vault: Resources from the National Security Archive's Nuclear Documentation Project
- The Atomic Heritage Foundation- Veterans History Project
- Nevada Test Site Oral History Project
In December 1950, President Harry S. Truman approved the establishment of a continental nuclear proving ground 65 miles north of Las Vegas, Nevada. Between 1951 and 1992, 1021 nuclear detonations took place at the Nevada Test Site - one-hundred explosions were in the atmosphere and 921 were underground.
- The Atomic Cafe 1982
- Trinity and Beyond 1995, "331 Atmospheric nuclear test from 1945-1962 until JFK signed the Limited Test Ban Treaty"
- Youtube.com/nuclearvault
Studies:
- Cancer among Military Personnel Exposed to Nuclear Weapons.
- The Five Series Study: Mortality of Military Participants in U.S. Nuclear Weapons Tests 2000
- Timeline of radiation in the 1950-1960s
- Effects of Nuclear Testing
- Veterans' Advisory Board for Dose Reconstruction
- Department of Energy report on nuclear tests from July 16, 1945 to 1992
- Indeterminism and the contrastive theory of explanation by Petri Ylikoski, pg 6, discusses radiation, leukemia, Smoky)
- Analysis of Radiation Exposure for Task Force WARRIOR-Shot SMOKY-Exercise Desert Rock, VII-VIII Operation Plumbbob 1979
- Mortality and Cancer Frequency Among Military Nuclear Test (Smoky) Participants-Reply by Caldwell et al, JAMA 1984; 627
We agree that leukemia appears with a latent period between two and 20 years and that the latent period for solid cancers probably exceeds 15 years from the time of radiation exposure. Although we reported a statistically significant increase in the occurrence of leukemia in the Smoky participants, the latent period exceeds 15 years for 63.6% of the cases, as shown in the Table.
- Exposure to radiation
- Exercise Desert Rock VII and VIII
- The Atomic Frontier: Atmospheric Testing in Nevada, The Two Sides By Julie Etchegaray
- Atomic Midnight by Ken Nightingale
- Film Badge Dosimetry in Atmospheric Nuclear Tests
