active fall out for an appreciable length of time,
2
This small population was only raciated and there could not be the
other factors of blast and heat.
3.
This radiated group, because of the circumstances, was forced to live
in a radioactive contaminated shelter, wear radioactive clothes_,, eat radioactive food, and wash with radioactive water,
4.
For the first time a group has respired in a radioactiveatmosphere for
several hours.
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5,
For the first time a group has eaten highly radioactive foods,
6
There is the highly relevant question of a ship fleeing towards the
East from an event in the west running into a racivactive dust coming towards
it from the East,
7.
How will the signs and symptoms of the fall out effects differ from
the reciation effects of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs?
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Lastly, what will be the ultimate fate of these men not only in terms
of days or years; but in terms of their age of death, cause of death, procreation,
genetic mutations, etc,.?
At the request of the Atomic Energy Comission, the directer of the Atomic
Bomb Casualty Commission was asked to proceed to Tokyo to determine the condition
of two patients who were reported to be there,
He was instcucted to make as
careful an appraisal as he could of their present status and of their progress
since arrival on March 15th,
These two patients were considered to be the most
seriously injured of the crew and had been taken to Tokyo University Hospital
where Japanese experts would be responsible for their examination and treatment,
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