The human sex odds at birth after the atmospheric atomic bomb tests, after Chernobyl, and in the vicinity of nuclear facilities

Abstract

The atmospheric atomic bomb test fallout affected the human sex odds at birth overall, and the Chernobyl fallout had a similar impact in Europe and parts of Asia. The birth sex odds near nuclear facilities are also distorted. The persistently disturbed secular human sex odds trends allow the estimation of the global deficit of births in the range of several millions.

Letter to the Editor

“…However, the findings presented by Victor Grech must not be considered in isolation, they are rather consistent with early observations after the atomic bombing of Japan, and are clearly in line with our results after Chernobyl and in the vicinity of nuclear facilities [8,9,17,23,24]. The relief of ionizing radiation as a possible culprit for the sex ratio increases after radiological events offered by Jargin: social factors and negligibility of doses is not convincing as gradually changing social factors cannot entail abrupt sex ratio changes and a doubling of the background radiation is certainly not trivial.…”

Adverse genetic effects induced by chemical or physical environmental pollution

“…In this Issue of "Environmental Science and Pollution Research," we show a distorted sex odds in all of Europe analyzing trends from 1975 to 2007. We also disclose similar effects in Europe and in the USA after the atmospheric atomic bomb testing from 1945 to 1963 (Scherb and Voigt 2010). Our findings allow the estimation of the likely order of magnitude of one million missing children across Europe and parts of Asia after Chernobyl till to date.…”

The Influence of Migration on Secular Trends in Sex Ratios at Birth in Cuba in the Past Fifty Years

“…This is because such events appear to encourage stressed females to spontaneously abort male foetuses in excess of female foetuses (13) in accordance with the Trivers-Willard hypothesis (10). Radiation is an exception, in that populations wherein males and females are equally exposed tend to decrease in fertility and also further skew M/F in favour of males (14).…”