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1Author:  Bankston, J.Add to Favorites
 Title:  J. Bankston Papers 1950-1985 (bulk 1980-1985) ead 
 Date(s):  1950-1985 
 Abstract:  Documents from Court Case No. C79-0515 “Irene Allen, et. al. plaintiffs vs. United States of America” related to nuclear testing by the United States government in the 1950s in Nevada that affected people in Arizona, Nevada and Utah. The bulk of the material consists of the court case, personal digests, technical reports and articles used by Jay Bankston to aid him in his application to the Veterans Administration for compensation for cancer he believed was the result of exposure to radiation during his military service in the Marshall Islands. 
 Repository:  University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections 
 Subjects:  Atmospheric radiation -- Marshall Islands. | Atomic bomb -- Marshall Islands -- Testing. | Downwinders | Liability for nuclear damages -- Arizona. | Nuclear explosions -- Marshall Islands. | Nuclear weapons -- Marshall Island. | Nuclear weapons testing victims -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Arizona. | Operation Crossroads, Marshall Islands, 1946. | Radiation carcinogenesis. | Radiation -- Health aspects. | Radiation -- Testing. | Radiation victims -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Arizona. | Radioactive fallout -- Arizona. | Radioactive fallout -- Nevada. | Radioactive fallout -- Utah. | Veterans -- Health aspects -- Arizona. | Veterans -- Diseases -- Government policy -- United States. | Veterans -- Medical care. 
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