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(continued)

your conclusions are, and then have a problen of final peblic
relations, we're faced now with a situation in which

is

probably no area in where there is morehocus pocus and
understanding than in the general problem of radioactivity and

ite effects on hunans, And until we are able sorehow or bnother
to put down some of this mystery -- aprrosch this probleq with

@ little detachment and a little understanding, we probably

will

never solve the final problem -— this then comes back agalin inte
the final problem of public relations -- and I'm sure thaf

in

that stage Hr. Salisbury would agree too, that you're going te
have wide dissemination, mich greater understanding of

th

problems of radioactivity than you have today, and this w

only be done if a good deal of this problem and its

findings ape

laid out in the open for more people te know. So, the quastion
of what haprens in-between ought in part to de judged not nly
by the problem of the difficulties of collecting samples, px :
also by the fact that finally this fs sonething here the publ ie

BrPHRe

is going to have to becoze much better educated than it

today

if it's going to understand what the problea of the futurel

is,

It seems to me that probably here the group at RAND a
knows quite a bit about radioactivity acd quite a bit nore] thas .

the public Imows, and it seems to me that we have everythiig to
gain by making public today a large fraction of what we kn
just to alleviate public concern about the matter,

Danartrasnt of Energy
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