| LC control no. | n 50073710 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission |
| Variant(s) | A.B.C.C. ABCC Brues-Henshaw Commission Gembaku Shōgai Chōsa Iinkai (U.S.) Kokuritsu Yobō Eisei Kenkyūjo (Japan). Atomic Casualty Commission Kokuritsu Yobō Eisei Kenkyūjo (Japan). Gembaku Shōgai Chōsa Iinkai National Research Council (U.S.). Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission United States. Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission United States. War Department. Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission |
| See also | Successor: Radiation Effects Research Foundation Hierarchical superior: National Research Council (U.S.) Hierarchical superior: United States. War Department National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Atomic Casualties National Research Council (U.S.). Advisory Committee on the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission |
| Beginning date | 1947-03 |
| Found in | Its General report ... 1947. Technical report (Radiation Effecta Research Foundation). Technical report, RERF TR, 16-78: t.p. (Radiation Effects Research Foundation) p. 2 of cover (the Foundation, formerly ABCC) Woodbury, L.A. Historical notes on ABCC and its aims and objectives, 1956: p. [1] (ABCC; Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission) p. 2 (also known as the Brues-Henshaw Commission) National Research Council WWW site, Sept. 4, 2018: Organized Collections (In Nov. 1946 President Harry S. Truman issued a directive authorizing the NAS-NRC to study the survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagaskai; a five man commission operating under the NRC's Divisionin of Medical Sciences and calling itself the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission had just been sent to Japan to conduct a preliminary survey;The Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC) was officially established under the Research Council's Division of Medical Sciences in March 1947; ABCC was responsible for carrying out research in the field, it was overseen by the division's Committee on Atomic Casualties, which later became the Advisory Committee on ABCC) |
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