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,

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within

is not actusily the cass

separating the rosidual
imuodinte nu Ae
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