Sue Rabbitt Roff
Biographic Data
| ID | 752344 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sue Rabbitt Roff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sue Rabbitt |
| FAMILY NAME | Roff |
| SIGNATURE | ROFF S R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Dundee |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5770-1877 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
More honoured in the breach than the observance. A comment on the failure of duty of care at the Australian test sites
This article is part of a special issue to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Atomic warfare began 3 weeks before the devastation of Hiroshima and N
Establishing the Possible Radiogenicity of Morbidity and Mortality from Participation in UK Nuclear Weapons Development
To succeed in compensation claims for radiogenic injuries induced by their participation in the United Kingdom's atomic and nuclear weapons tests of the 1950s and 1960s, the 22,000 nuclear test veterans will have to satisfy Hill's Principles of Causation. Although they are blocked by legal restraints from suing the Crown, the evidential case for the veterans has been strengthening in recent years to a point where it would probably succeed in a UK…
Blood money
Fifty years after the first UK nuclear weapon test at Monte Bello off the north-west coast of Australia in October 1952, this article documents the deliberate and repeated decisions not to provide adequate radiation protection to most of the 40,000 men who participated in the British programme in the 1950s in Australia and Christmas Island, precisely to avoid future liability claims. The evidence lies in the minutes and memoranda of the scientist…
Project sunshine and the slippery slope
When citizens of Atlantic alliance countries are being asked by their elected leaders to suspend many of the fundamental rights of democracy in order to defend them, it is timely to consider the perils of the slippery slope that was opened up by the harvesting of human bones and tissue for studies of strontium-90 fallout during the height of the cold war. In particular, the need to collect samples from recently deceased infants and children seems…
Sitting it out in the sealed room
The response of the Israeli civilian population to the Scud missile attacks and the possibility of chemical and biological warfare during the 1991 Gulf War have been monitored in various contexts. The present article reviews the findings and their implications for civilian defence planning in the event of a reprise. In 1991 the most controversial policy was the insistence that Israeli families prepare a sealed room in which to sit out the Iraqi a…
Living with rattlesnakes
After the Three Mile Island nuclear plant accident in 1979, a local Pennsylvania resident told The New York Times 'You live with that plant over there for years and years and don't think much about it. But it's like living with a rattlesnake. Sooner or later it's going to bite you. You just don't know when.' As we enter the twenty-first century, many communities find themselves living with rattlesnakes--one at least of which has already bitten. T…
Human radiation experiments
In 1992 a system of public access was established to more than three million pages of files in government depositories related to radiation experiments on US citizens, including children, pregnant women, and convicts, studying the effects of radioactive isotopes and testicular irradiation. The background to some of these studies is described; many were considered by Ethics Committees and the results published in the open literature after peer rev…
The glass bead game
In mid-summer 1997, just as the United States National Cancer Institute was acknowledging that the nuclear bomb tests at the Nevada Test Site may ultimately cause up to 75,000 cases of thyroid cancer in people who were living in the USA in the 1950s and 1960s, the Australian authorities were mooting the possibility that the Maralinga test sites in South Australia should become a tourist attraction. Some Aboriginal tribal leaders welcomed this pro…
Puff the magic dragon
Radiobiological science has proceeded on empirical principles since health physics became a necessary professional adjunct to the military and civilian uses of nuclear energy in the aftermath of the detonations at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This paper reviews the data which gradually emerged indicating that early assumptions about the detonation of atomic and nuclear weapons underestimated the significance of fallout, residual and induced radiation …
Notes on the Bibliography
Overreaching in Paradise
New Caledonia
New Caledonia
Overreaching in Paradise
Notes on the Bibliography
The glass bead game
In mid-summer 1997, just as the United States National Cancer Institute was acknowledging that the nuclear bomb tests at the Nevada Test Site may ultimately cause up to 75,000 cases of thyroid cancer in people who were living in the USA in the 1950s and 1960s, the Australian authorities were mooting the possibility that the Maralinga test sites in South Australia should become a tourist attraction. Some Aboriginal tribal leaders welcomed this pro…
Puff the magic dragon
Radiobiological science has proceeded on empirical principles since health physics became a necessary professional adjunct to the military and civilian uses of nuclear energy in the aftermath of the detonations at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This paper reviews the data which gradually emerged indicating that early assumptions about the detonation of atomic and nuclear weapons underestimated the significance of fallout, residual and induced radiation …
Living with rattlesnakes
After the Three Mile Island nuclear plant accident in 1979, a local Pennsylvania resident told The New York Times 'You live with that plant over there for years and years and don't think much about it. But it's like living with a rattlesnake. Sooner or later it's going to bite you. You just don't know when.' As we enter the twenty-first century, many communities find themselves living with rattlesnakes--one at least of which has already bitten. T…
Human radiation experiments
In 1992 a system of public access was established to more than three million pages of files in government depositories related to radiation experiments on US citizens, including children, pregnant women, and convicts, studying the effects of radioactive isotopes and testicular irradiation. The background to some of these studies is described; many were considered by Ethics Committees and the results published in the open literature after peer rev…
Sitting it out in the sealed room
The response of the Israeli civilian population to the Scud missile attacks and the possibility of chemical and biological warfare during the 1991 Gulf War have been monitored in various contexts. The present article reviews the findings and their implications for civilian defence planning in the event of a reprise. In 1991 the most controversial policy was the insistence that Israeli families prepare a sealed room in which to sit out the Iraqi a…
Blood money
Fifty years after the first UK nuclear weapon test at Monte Bello off the north-west coast of Australia in October 1952, this article documents the deliberate and repeated decisions not to provide adequate radiation protection to most of the 40,000 men who participated in the British programme in the 1950s in Australia and Christmas Island, precisely to avoid future liability claims. The evidence lies in the minutes and memoranda of the scientist…
Project sunshine and the slippery slope
When citizens of Atlantic alliance countries are being asked by their elected leaders to suspend many of the fundamental rights of democracy in order to defend them, it is timely to consider the perils of the slippery slope that was opened up by the harvesting of human bones and tissue for studies of strontium-90 fallout during the height of the cold war. In particular, the need to collect samples from recently deceased infants and children seems…
Establishing the Possible Radiogenicity of Morbidity and Mortality from Participation in UK Nuclear Weapons Development
To succeed in compensation claims for radiogenic injuries induced by their participation in the United Kingdom's atomic and nuclear weapons tests of the 1950s and 1960s, the 22,000 nuclear test veterans will have to satisfy Hill's Principles of Causation. Although they are blocked by legal restraints from suing the Crown, the evidential case for the veterans has been strengthening in recent years to a point where it would probably succeed in a UK…
More honoured in the breach than the observance. A comment on the failure of duty of care at the Australian test sites
This article is part of a special issue to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Atomic warfare began 3 weeks before the devastation of Hiroshima and N
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