m
ere
greatest efisets upon tho colony.
individuals divestly
exoscsod
to the nuclear radiation
of some of these devieos Cid not suvvive,
exposed sutfered socond- and
radiation.
Unany of thom who wore
third-dagres burns froa the thermal
In many insianess, the burns wore to the bones.
The vesidusl nuctoar vadiations vere very high,
Ani-
mils mbove the ground vould have recsived accented lothal Cases
duving tho first hours, and those below voule receive swb-lotns
levols.
Cver a period ef woohs, practically 211 of thom above
ground aud penretically nll Of tna rats below ground vocoived
lethal ceses,
The vats in mest of these casts were preuably
suojectcd to greater radiation than that indicated frea the
gamua radintion that I gust spoke of, and this was ave to the
waseing tun of
torrential
\
enctiva maiterial into the bunahers by tho
rains that
followed.
The initial nuclear yadlation es contrasted to the
residuacl radiation is that of garran radiation put out by the
detonation, we fisure,
elthouch this
within
is not actusily the cass
separating the rosidual
imuodinte nu Ae
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