• A-bombs
  
  Atomicarchive.com http://www.atomicarchive.com/index.shtml
  
  

  The official website of the city of Hiroshima http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/peacesite/

  
  The race to build the Atomic Bomb http://www.ccoe.k12.ca.us/abomb/
  
  The history of the Atomic Bomb http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa0503a.htm
  
  Nevada Test Site Historical Foundation http://www.ntshf.org
  
  

• Background Radiation
  
  Cosmic background radiation
  http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/guidry/violence/bang2.html
  

Natural background radiation
http://www.triumf.ca/safety/tsn/tsn_6_2/section3_9.html

Man-made background radiation
http://www.triumf.ca/safety/tsn/tsn_6_2/section3_10.html

• Biological Effects
  
  Jefferson Lab, Radiation Biological Effects
  http://www.jlab.org/div_dept/train/rad_guide/effects.html

Biological effects of radiation Http://bmhs1.bh.rmit.edu.au/mrs/DigitalRadiography/DrPapers/BiolEff.html

How does radiation affect the public?
http://www.nrc.gov/what-we-do/radiation/affect.html

Biological effects of radiation
http://www.ehs.washington.edu/training/Radsaf/dental/rad_effects.htm

Biological effects of ionizing radiation
http://web.princeton/edu/sites/ehs/osradtraining/biologicaleffects/page.htm

What are the biological effects of ionizing radiation?
http://www.weather.gov.hk/education/dbep/rad_health/eng/r4.htm?menu=rad_health&rad_health_2

• Bystander Effects
  
  Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bystander Effects
  http://www.lanl.gov/worldview/news/dateline/Dateline0701.pdf
  
  

  Radiation bystander effects

  http://www.eurekalert.org/features/doe/2001-07/danl-rbe060702.php
  
  The radiation-induced bystander effect
  http://belyakov.fortunecity.net/bystander.html
  
  
  
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Radiation)
  http://www.bt.cdc.gov/radiation/index.asp#public
  
  
  
• Dirty Bombs
  
  Idaho State University Radiation Information - Dirty Bombs
  http://www.physics.isu.edu/radinf/dirtybomb.htm
  
  

  National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) http://www.niaid.nih.gov/default.htm

  • NIAID Awards $47 Million in New Effort to Develop Medical Countermeasures Against Radiological and Nuclear Threats http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/news/newsreleases/2005/radnuc.htm
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH News) http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/oct2005/niaid-12a.htm
    

  Scott, B.R. (2004) Health risks from high-level radiation exposures from radiological weapons. Radiation Protection Management 21(6):9-25.
  
  

  Stone, R. (2004) Deep repositories: Out of sight, out of terrorist's reach. Science 303:161-164
  
  The Environmental Assessment Division, Establishing Remediation Levels in Response to a Radiological Dispersal Event (or "Dirty Bomb")
  
  USUHS Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences Radiological Dispersal Device/Radiological Terrorism Web Page, http://rad.usuhs.mil/rdd/usuhs.rdd.html
  

• DNA Damage and Repair
  
  DNA Repair
  

  http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/D/DNArepair.html
  
  DNA Damage, Repair, and Diseases
  http://www.hindawi.co.uk/open-access/jbb/volume-2/S1110724302001985.pdf
  
  DNA Damage and Repair
  http://www.lehigh.edu/~inuvlake/UVecology/DNA/DNA.html
  
  
  
• Fallout in Southern Utah

  
  Public information on radiation fallout from weapon testing in neighboring Nevada.
  http://www.southernutahhistory.com/index.php
  
  

• Genomic Instability
  
  Radiation Oncology Research Laboratory, University of Maryland
  http://medschool.umaryland.edu/departments/radiationoncology/rorl/morgan.html
  
  Radiation and Genome Stability Unit
  http://www.ragsu.har.mrc.ac.uk/instability/index.htm
  
  
  
• Health Effects of Ionizing Radiation
  
  Biological Health Effects of Ionizing Radiation
  http://www.ccnr.org/ceac_B.html
  
  
  
• Health Effects of Radioactive Waste Disposal
  http://www.euradcom/org/2003/clearance.pdf
  
  
• Low doses of ionizing radiation
  http://www.riscrad.org
  
  
  
• Medical use of low doses of ionizing radiation
  http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2002/10/07/gvsd1007.htm
  
  
  
• Montana Radon Mines
  http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0401/feature7/index.html
  
  
  
• Nuclear Accidents
  
  http://library.thinkquest.org/17940/texts/nuclear_disasters/nuclear_disasters.html
  
  
  Chernobyl.com information about radiation disaster
  http://www.chernobyl.com/

Three Mile Island
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/3mile-isle.html

• Nuclear waste
  
  http://www.nuclearwaste.com
  
  Washington's Department of Ecology Nuclear Waste Program
  http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/nwp
  
  http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov/ymp/index.shtml
  

• Nuclear weapons
  
  Center for Defense Information
  http://www.cdi.org/issues/nukef&f/database
  
  50 facts about nuclear weapons
  http://www.brook.edu/FP/PROJECTS/NUCWCOST/50.HTM
  
  

• Radon
  http://www.nsc.org/ehc/radon.htm
  
  Radon Information Center, http://www.radon.com/radon/radon_EPA.html
  
  Assessment of Risks from Radon in Homes, http://www.epa.gov/radiation/docs/assessment/radon_in_homes.pdf
  
  
  
• Thyroid Cancer Risk from Nuclear Weapon Testing
  
  National Cancer Institute, Radioactive I-131 from Fallout
  http://www.nci.nih.gov/i131
  
  

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