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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from U. S. Project Trinity Report by Carl Maag and Steve Rohrer: roentgens; another 22 individuals received between 4 and 15 roentgens.
PREFACE
From 1945 to 1962, the U.S. Government, through the Manhattan Engineer
District (MED) and its successor agency, the Atomic Energy Commission
(AEC), conducted 235 tests of nuclear devices at sites in the United
States and in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. In all, an estimated
220,000 Department of Defense (DOD)* participants, both military and
civilian, were present at the tests. Project TRINITY, the war-time
effort to test-fire a nuclear explosive device, was the first
atmospheric nuclear weapons test.
* The MED, which was part of the Army Corps of Engineers, administered
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