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Joan Stephenson

JAMA. 1999;281:2175.

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Military commanders should be better trained to consider the potential long-term health effects of radiation and other potential hazards that could be encountered in either hostile or peacekeeping operations, according to a new report by the Institute of Medicine (IOM). Currently, military leaders focus on acute injuries that could affect the ability to carry out the mission in assessing risks of a planned military action, leaving long-term health consequences to the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Although the threat of global nuclear war is considered diminished with the end of the Cold War, troops could be exposed to radiation in small-scale nuclear exchanges, terrorist attacks, radioactive material disseminated in conventional explosives, and in accidents at nuclear power plants.

The IOM committee that issued the report said the Department of Defense (DOD) should give commanders information to use in evaluating potential radiation-related risks compared with risks from alternative actions, and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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