Titles List: Committee For Nuclear Responsibility

The Committee for Nuclear Responsibility

List of CNR Publications & Press

Books, 2008 to 1971, and Selected Interviews
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2008 2007 2004 2003 2002	2001 2000 1999 1998 1997	1996 1995 1994 1993 1992	1991 1990 1989 1988 1986	1981 1980 1979 1978 1977	1975 1972 1971 1969-70
Press	Selected Interviews

Books:

Radiation from Medical Procedures in the Pathogenesis of Cancer and Ischemic Heart Disease: Dose-Response Studies with Physicians per 100,000 Population,
(1999, 699 pages -- updated: December 21, 2015)
Preventing Breast Cancer:
The Story Of A Major, Proven, Preventable Cause Of This Disease,
(1996, 424 pages -- Complete: April 5, 1998)
Radiation-Induced Cancer from Low-Dose Exposure: An Independent Analysis,
(1990, 480 pgs -- updated: March 12, 1998)
Poisoned Power, The Case Against Nuclear Power Plants Before and After Three Mile Island
(contents of the 1971+1979 printings -- Complete: December 16, 1998)

2008 :

Heart Risk due to Low Radiation Doses: Major Additional Evidence,
by Egan O'Connor, September 1, 2008
CT Heart Scans: Two Warnings from U.S. Medical History
unabbreviated version
by Egan O'Connor, editor for the late Prof. John W. Gofman, M.D., Ph.D., July 10, 2008

2007 :

John W. Gofman, 88; medical physicist warned of the health effects of radiation
by Thomas H. Maugh II, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer August 28, 2007

2004 :

Comments upon the “Draft Recommendations
of the International Commission on Radiological Protection.”
Submitted to the ICRP by John Gofman and Egan O'Connor, December 26, 2004.

2003 :

FDA Proposes New X-Ray Regulations: Immense Health Benefits Possible
--- Unless Naysayers Prevail.
X-Ray-Induced Diseases, Hormesis, and Medical Ethics.
March 31, 2003. Testimony submitted to the FDA, by John Gofman and Egan O'Connor

2002 :

What Are the Main Critiques of the 1999 Study by Gofman,
after Three Years of Peer-Review?
Six Critiques of Radiation from Medical Procedures
in the Causation of Cancer and Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD), November 2002
From XaHP: The X-rays and Health Project,
An educational project of the Committee for Nuclear Responsibility:
- Making Personal Decisions about X-ray Screening Tests, Such as
  Mammography and CT of the Lung, Colon, Heart, or the Entire Body, May 2002

2001 :

From XaHP: The X-rays and Health Project,
An educational project of the Committee for Nuclear Responsibility:
- Links to Professional Societies, Current to 12 Oct 2001
- Who Says that Usual X-Ray Doses Can Be Much Lower?, October 2001
- X-Radiation and Gamma Radiation:
  Comments on Their Nomination as Known Human Carcinogens
  for the Eleventh Report on Carcinogens (RoC), September 11, 2001
- Computed Tomography (CT) X-Ray Exams:
  Estimated Doses to Patients, September 2001
- Breast Cancer: Why Do We Permit So Many Preventable Cases?, June 2001
- How the Cold War Caused Millions of American Deaths
  Through Medical Practice:
  A Story of Intended and Unintended Consequences, April, 2001
- X-Ray Dose-Measuring Service for Physicians and Dentists, January 2001
Solving Energy Shortages without Nuclear Power: Three Easy Rules, April 2001
The Causes of Cancer: Is There "Too Much Emphasis on Genes,
and Not Enough on the Environment?" How to Avoid Some Mistakes, April 2001
Key Facts Justifying Opposition to Nuclear Pollution at Any Level: A Brief Letter of Concern,
February 6, 2001

2000 :

From XaHP: The X-rays and Health Project,
An educational project of the Committee for Nuclear Responsibility:
- Eight Key Points: Your Stake in
  the Patients' Right-to-Know about X-Rays, December 7, 2000
- A Proposal for Radiologists: How a Specific Consultation Can Become a Major
  Asset for the Practice and for the Community, October 2000
- Mammography and XaHP (the X-Rays and Health Project):
  Is There Any Conflict? Four Brief Comments, October 2000
- Do X-Ray Practitioners Give Enough Attention to Minimizing
  the Patients' X-Ray Dosage? Some Opinions, Some Facts, September 2000
- How X-Ray Doses Vary From One X-Ray Practitioner to Another:
  Nationwide Surveys, September 2000
- Fear, and the Patients' Right-to-Know: The Viewpoint
  of an Influential Radiologist, Deserving a Public Response, September 2000
- A Patient's Guide, When X-Rays Are Proposed, September 2000
- Making the Bay Area a Model for California and the Nation:
  A Guaranteed Way to Reduce Future Cancer-Rates, Fall 2000
- X-Rays: The Fallacy of the "Day in the Sun" Comparison, February 28, 2000
A New, Low-Cost Way to Shake a Mistaken Mindset, April 2, 2000
Preventing an Exercise in Self-Defeat:
The Relevance of Medical Radiation to Nuclear Pollution, April 2000
Additional Materials Related to Radiation from Medical Procedures (RAMP) :
- One Easy and Important Step You Can Take
  Toward Avoiding Cancer and Coronary Heart Disease:
  An Affordable Summary of New Evidence about X-Rays, February 2000
- Are X-Ray Procedures Equivalent, in Extra Radiation Dose, To Taking an Airplane Trip?, February 28, 2000
- What Is an "Entrance Dose" of X-Rays?, February 2000
- RAMP Addition-1: "Expectations", February 19, 2000
- RAMP Addition-2: "Causation", February 25, 2000
- RAMP Addition-3: "Atherogenic Mutations", March 9, 2000

1999 :

Letter of Concern, regarding the biological effects of ionizing radiation, May 11, 1999
Cancer in the Family: Does Each Case Require More Than One Cause?
The Likelihood of Co-Action., April 1999

1998 :

CNR Renewal Request, Fall 1998
"Asleep at the Wheel": The Special Menace
of Inherited Afflictions from Ionizing Radiation, Fall 1998
The Fission-Product Equivalence
between Nuclear Reactors and Nuclear Weapons, Fall 1998
Adapted from Vol.117, No. 105, July 8, 1971, of the Congressional Record
Comments on Extremely Low Frequency Electric and Magnetic Fields, October 2, 1998
Mammography: An Individual's Estimated Risk that the
Examination Itself Will Cause Radiation-Induced Breast Cancer, June 9, 1998
Confirmation that Ionizing Radiation Can Induce Genomic Instability:
What is Genomic Instability, and Why Is It So Important?, Spring 1998

1997 :

Reject the Policy of Putting Radioactive Scrap-Metal into Commerce, December 1, 1997
Cassini Fly-By: Will the "Ceramic" Plutonium Still Be a Cohesive Solid,
or Will Its Self-Irradiation Have Made It Very Fragile?,
An Open Inquiry to NASA and DOE, October 23, 1997
The Following 3 Pieces Together Comprise The Fall '97 mailing:
The Free-Radical Fallacy about Ionizing Radiation:
Demonstration That a Popular Claim Is Senseless, October 1997
A Wake-Up Call for Everyone Who Dislikes Cancer and Inherited Afflictions, Spring 1997
Letter of Protest to KQED President re:
broadcasting Frontline's "Nuclear Reaction", April 25, 1997
Supporting files to the Preventing Breast Cancer book:

1996 :

Answers to Frequently-Asked-Questions about "Radiation", Fall 1996
Letters To the Editor -- Unsafe in any dose, March 19, 1996
Chernobyl's 10th: Cancer and Nuclear-Age Peace -- Don't Be Deceived, March 9, 1996

1995 :

What Is Factually Wrong with This Belief:
"Harm from Low-Dose Radiation Is Just Hypothetical --- Not Proven," Fall 1995
Seven Comments on Proposed Radiation "Standards"
for the Yucca Mountain Rad-Waste Respository, October 1995

1994 :

The Bonds of Trust vs. Deceit by DOE:
Some Enduring Measures for Your Health and Safety, Spring 1994

1993 :

Reflections on "Mission Impossible"
(30th anniversary of LLNL Biology Programs), November 22, 1993
What Is Humanity's Most Harmful Law? The Law of Concentrated Benefit over Diffuse Injury, November 1993
Beware the Data Diddlers, by Dr. John Gofman, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May 1993
Radio-Iodine: From Hanford To Chernobyl . . . And Beyond?, Spring 1993

1992 :

The Right Livelihood Award, 1992, John Gofman (USA)
Bio-Medical "Un-Knowledge" And Nuclear Pollution: A Common-Sense Proposal, December 9, 1992
No One Escapes Harm: The Essential Story of In-Utero Irradiation, November 1992
Radiation-Inducible Chromosome Injuries: Some Recent Evidence
on Major Health Consequences, Spring 1992

1991 :

"Holocaust" versus "Nothing Happened"
(IAEA and WHO -tainted Chernobyl Radiation databases), Fall 1991

1990 :

The Greening of Nuclear Power and The De-Regulating of Nuclear Waste:
Four Key Facts Which Need Attention, November 1990

1989 :

"For Want of a Nail . . . The Rider Was Lost" :
A Big Flag of Warning from the Radiation Issue, November, 1989

1988 :

What About Reviving Nuclear Power?, October 1988

1986 :

Assessing Chernobyl's Cancer Consequences:
Application of Four "Laws" of Radiation Carcinogenesis (PDF, text),
The American Chemical Society Symposium On Low-Level Radiation,
Division of Chemical Health and Safety, September 9, 1986

1981 :

The Top 10 Pronuclear Arguments . . . Answered, January 1981

1980 :

Some Medical Causes and Consequences of Nuclear War: How Physicians Might Help to Prevent Nuclear War, September 1980

1979 :

Nuclear Power: A Suggestion For Insuring The Uninsurable...
A New Kind of “Direct Action”, (PDF, text), September 23, 1979

1978 :

A Small Affidavit with Big Implications (PDF, text), June 5, 1978
CNR Publication List: Sep 1978 (PDF, text)

1977 :

Testimony by John W. Gofman for the NRC GESMO Hearings
addresses the considerations of the toxicity of plutonium (PDF, text),
February 21, 1977
Letter to James Schlesinger on National Energy Policy Recommendations
(PDF, text), March 17, 1977
Gross Energy Available through Light Water Reactors
C.N.R. Report 1977-2 (PDF, text), May 1977
Jimmy Carter's Energy Plan: Myths vs. Realities
by John W. Gofman and Egan O'Connor
- Part I: Solar Energy (PDF, text), CNR Report 1977-3, June 6, 1977
- Part II: Energy Conservation (PDF, text), CNR Report 1977-4, June 6, 1977
- Part III: Nuclear Fission (PDF, text), CNR Report 1977-5, June 6, 1977

1975 :

The Cancer Hazard from Inhaled Plutonium (PDF, text),
CNR Report 1975-1 - R, May 14, 1975
Estimated Production of Human Lung Cancers by Plutonium
from Worldwide Fallout (PDF, text),
CNR Report 1975-2, July 10, 1975

1972 :

Some Important Unexamined Questions Concerning
The Barnwell Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Plant (PDF, text),
Testimony Before The Nuclear Study Committee,
The Legislature of the State oF South Carolina, January 7, 1972
Reacting to reactors -- The "peaceful atom": Time for a moratorium, November 1972

1971 :

Epidemiologic Studies of Carcinogenesis By Ionizing Radiation (PDF, text),
by John W. Gofman and Arthur R. Tamplin, Proceedings of the Sixth Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability, July 20, 1971

1969-70 :

THE GOFMAN-TAMPLIN REPORTS

Press:

Dr. Gofman debates Edward Teller:
Nuclear Plants – Forum and Againstum, Central Coast Times, The day the experts came to town, Number 63, 23 October 1975
Original Copy, Central Coast Times, plus raw auto-generated Text
Teller-Gofman debate stirs crowd of 4,000, Bob Anderson, San Luis Obispo County Telegram-Tribune, 18 October 1975

Selected Interviews:

The Patient's Right-To-Know,
June 2000 Interview With Dr. John Gofman from The Women's Menopausal Network
Human Radiation Studies: Remembering The Early Years,
Oral Histories: Dr. John W. Gofman, M.D., Ph.D., DOE, December 20, 1994
Gofman on the health effects of radiation: ‘There is no safe threshold’, and `Challenging The Nuclear Establishment',
2-part interview in UCSF's synapse, January 1994
A Conversation with John Gofman, Ph.D. '43, California Monthly, April 1993
The Plowboy Interview: Dr. John W. Gofman, Nuclear And Antinuclear Scientist, March 1981
Curriculum Vitae of Dr. John W. Gofman, M.D., Ph.D.

Also on ratical, see:

“CHAPTER 4, John W. Gofman, Medical Physicist”
from Leslie Freeman, Nuclear Witnesses, Insiders Speak Out, 1981
Dr. John Gofman, A Nuclear Researcher
Who Refuses To Lie About Radiation Dangers,
NUCLEAR GUARDIANSHIP FORUM, Issue 3, Spring 1994