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Lessons Learned from Research at Three-Mile Island and Goiania, Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Daniel L. Collins
Affiliation:
Lt. Colonel, United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Boiling AFB, D.C., USA
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Abstract

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Type
Medical-Psychological Management of Large-Scale Disasters
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1996

References

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