Re: Reassessment of Japanese Bomb Data

[muckerheide@mediaone.net]

Fischer, Karl wrote:
> 
> Fellow Radsafers...
> 
> I'm writing on behalf of a colleague who is looking for information
> pertaining to recent claims by a Japanese researcher (Masao Tomonaga,
> Nagasaki University) that a reassessment of declassified Japanese bomb
> data shows different results than previously believed (published as a
> joint U.S./Japanese report, DS-86).  Is anyone out there familiar with
> this?
> 
> Please respond to me directly.
> 
> Thank You,
> 
> Karl Fischer
> kwf@nih.gov

If anyone has a specific ref and data, please post to the list or copy me also
if you would be so kind. (Note that the DS86 doses have been known to be
egrigiously incorrect since almost the time they were issued, ca 1988. There
was going to be a "quick resolution" by NCRP/BEIR as stated by Sinclair in
1992. I heard there was some new confirmation in the last 2 years or so. Does
the Tomonaga work address this matter?

Thanks.

Regards, Jim Muckerheide
muckerheide@mediaone.net