PEDIATRICS Vol. 97 No. 4 April 1996, pp. 553
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CHILDREN OF THE ATOMIC BOMB: AN AMERICAN PHYSICIAN'S MEMOIR OF NAGASAKI, HIROSHIMA, AND THE MARSHALL ISLANDS

J. N. Yamazaki MD

This book was written especially for all those concerned for the welfare of children, but it also serves as a compendium for pediatricians to the hazards of atomic radiation and other effects of the bomb. In a sense the text may be considered a continuation of the Academy's endeavor to communicate related information to its membership in which I have participated in the past.

This effort began in 1957 when the Academy created a Committee of Radiation Hazard and Epidemiology of Malformations that subsequently became the Committee on Environmental Hazards. My assignments included updating the information on the ongoing studies of the children in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Marshall Islands and related studies, which the Committee reported in Pediatrics.

It has been my privilege to serve on the Committee especially with Drs Robert Aldrich, Lee Farr, Fred Silverman, and Paul Wehrle, most of whom successively chaired the Committee. They have encouraged the writing of the narrative and have reviewed the manuscript.