Permissible Exposures Under Emergency Conditions
Battle Creek, MI: Federal Civil Defense Administration, National Headquarters, 1957. Copy [one of unknown number of multiple contemporary copies] of Memorandum, with draft attached. Two-hole punched, disbound, held together with a clip. Cover memorandum with number stamps, ink notations and the name Donald J. Kimeldorf on front., transmitting a draft copy of a proposed FCDA Technical Bulletin on the Radiobiologic Effects of Radiation. Memorandum was signed out by Jack C. Greene, Director of the Radiological Defense Division. RARE SURVIVING COPY OF NEAR FINAL DRAFT. Draft, dated 2-25-57 and with a number stamped on first page, has 21 pages, Appendix A (6 figures), and Five additional figures. This bulletin is divided into five major sections: The first section concerns basic radiobiologic information that is required for the basis of answers given in sections II, III,m and IV. Sections II, III, and IV deal with topics concerning injury to human beings; environmental modifications and population group injury. They are presented in question and answer form. Section V gives a general discussion of civil defense applications of this information. The reason for preparing this bulletin in advance of publication of the NCRP Sub-Committee Handbook on "Irradiation Injury" was to provide guidance that was deemed urgently needed by civil defense planners. Survival studies in which plans for defense against nuclear attack needed guidance of this type to formulate realistic scenarios. This bulletin was intended to serve as an interim measure until the Committee's more complete treatment became available. Kimeldorf was a major scientific leader. His book with Ed Hunt entitled "Ionizing radiation: Neural function and behavior" is a thorough description of the physiological and behavioral effects of exposure to ionizing radiation. The Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA) was organized by President Harry S. Truman on December 1, 1950 through Executive Order 10186, and became an official government agency via the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950 on 12 January 1951. In 1958 the FCDA was superseded by the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization when President Dwight D. Eisenhower merged the FCDA with the Office of Defense Mobilization. In its early years, the agency focused on evacuation as a strategy. The FCDA was first headed by Millard Caldwell under Truman, then Val Peterson under Eisenhower. Jack C. Greene received his B.S. in electrical engineering from MIT in 1947 and his Masters in engineering administration from the George Washington University in 1970. He served with the Manhattan District at Oak Ridge during WWII after which he was a member of the AEC’S Radiation Instrument Branch until joining the then newly created civil defense agency in 1951. Since that time Mr. Greene had been associated with civil defense related technical and scientific activities including radiological instrument development, nuclear weapons test programs and other research. From 1962 through 1973 he headed the Postattack Research Division which included responsibility for civil defense fallout studies. Mr. Greene then became DCPA’S Deputy Assistant Director for Research. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Federal Civil Defense, FCDA, Radiobiologic Effects, Radiation Effects, Jack C. Greene, Radiological Defense, Nuclear Weapons Effects, Nuclear Attack, Irradiation Injury, Donald Kimeldorf. Effects of Radiation, Technical Bulletin
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