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Estimation of the Baseline Number of Cancers Among Marshallese and the Number of Cancers Attributable to Exposure to Fallout from Nuclear Weapons Testing Conducted in the Marshall Islands (2004)

Author	US National Cancer Institute
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Date	September 2004
Classification	4.26.4.00/21 (PACIFIC - US TESTING AREA)
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Estimation of the Baseline Number of Cancers Among Marshallese and the Number 
of Cancers Attributable to Exposure to Fallout from Nuclear Weapons Testing
Conducted in the Marshall Islands

I. INTRODUCTION

From 1946 through 1958, 66 nuclear weapons tests, in seven series, were carried out 
by the United States at Bikini and Enewetak Atolls in the Marshall Islands (Fig. 1). 
The total explosive yield of the tests was approximately 100 Mt (equivalent to 100 
million tons of TNT) (USDOE 1994, Simon and Robison 1997). Radioactive debris 
dispersed through the atmosphere was generally blown by the predominantly 
easterly winds towards the open ocean west of the Marshall Islands, though various 
historical reports indicate that radioactive debris from a number of tests traveled 
in other directions including north, east, southeast and southwest directions (e.g., 
Breslin and Cassidy 1955, DNA 1979). The radioactive debris that eventually fell 
to the ground is termed fallout.

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