The Nation - News from Dec. 12, 1985
The Pentagon said that thousands of soldiers and sailors who took part in 1946 tests of atomic weapons were exposed only to low levels of radiation. The assertion by the Defense Nuclear Agency to the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee disputed a General Accounting Office report last week that said as many as 17,000 of the 42,000 military personnel who were part of the tests may have received more radiation than earlier believed.
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