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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe The development of radiation dose estimates for the Japanese atomic-bomb survivors illustrates the value of exposure science in greatly

increasing the precision of risk estimates and, as a result, global confidence in the details of the health impacts from ionizing radiation and the development of health-protective

regulations and guidance. After the establishment in 1947 of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC) in Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Neel and Schull, 1956), several early studies were

conducted. In the earliest of these, because of the lack of knowledge of a relevant exposure metric, parents were classified in terms of distance from the hypocenters of the bombs as a

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, is a private, nonprofit foundation funded by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare

and the US Department of Energy, the latter in part through the National Academy of Sciences. AUTHOR INFORMATION Author notes * School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley,

Berkeley, California, USA AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS * Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Hiroshima, Japan Harry M Cullings & Kirk R Smith Authors * Harry M Cullings View author

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