A bill to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to study whether there is a relationship between the exposure of members of the Armed Forces of the United States to nuclear radiation in connection with the atomic detonations at Hiroshima and Nagasaki during 1945 and various symptoms currently exhibited by such members.

referredUnited States· United States Congress· EN

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25 September 1980

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Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.

Summary

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to study and report to Congress and the Veterans Administration on the relationship between exposure of military personnel to radiation following the atomic detonations at Hiroshima and Nagasaki or in the testing preceding such detonations and any health problems they may presently have.

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Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/8212
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