A Health Hazard Assessment for Blast Overpressure Exposures Subtitle - Analysis of RFR Biological Effects

Abstract

The avoidance of harmful effects, especially long term effects (cancers, mutations, reproductive disorders, etc.) is one of the dominant concerns for nonlethal weapons generally, and RFR technologies specifically. The need for the participation of policy, legal, and medical organizations at all stages of the research means that familiarity with the scientific basis for the potential occurrence of these effects is critical. All of these organizations recognize that the first step in this assessment is a review of the literature. In order to provide some guidance in this area, a summary of existing, reviewed literature was made. Several comprehensive reviews of the RFR biological effects research have been conducted in the past two years and these reviews provided the basis for this analysis. Our objective is not to make a scholarly assessment of the research, but to analyze trends in the data, as reported.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA392475

Entities

People

  • James H. Stuhmiller
  • Kevin H. Ho

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Biomedical Research
  • Body Weight
  • California
  • Databases
  • Economic Forecasting
  • Information Operations
  • Literature
  • Modulation
  • Nervous System
  • Nonlethal Weapons
  • Overpressure
  • Pulse Modulation
  • Scaling Laws
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

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  • Organizational Psychology.
  • Systems Analysis and Design