Download or read book Assessment of the Possible Health Effects of Ground Wave Emergency Network written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1993-02-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written at the request of the U.S. Air Force and Congress, this book evaluates the potential health effects associated with deployment of the Ground Wave Emergency Network (GWEN), a communications system to be used in case of a high-altitude detonation of a nuclear device. The committee, composed of experts in biophysics, physics, risk assessment, epidemiology, and cancer, examines data from laboratory and epidemiologic studies of effects from electromagnetic fields to determine the likelihood of health effects being caused by the operation of a fully implemented GWEN system.