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Ichiban (Radiation dosimetry for the survivors of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki) pp. viii + 120, Illus. 1977. (Tennessee, US Energy Research and Development Administration) $4.75 in USA $9.50 rest of the world.

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Ichiban, number one in Japanese, is the name of the project to determine the doses received by the survivors of the A-bombs. These survivors represent the largest human population exposed to ionizing radiations. Knowledge of the doses received by them would thus enable dose-response curves to be established. In view of the large use of radiation in medicine and other walks of life, an estimate of the risk based on human data is obviously of the utmost importance.

The book by Auxier—a leading member of the Ichiban project—is a fascinating review of the tremendous effort to establish the dosimetry.