Bair:
No because it was mentioned earlier that fallout from the atomic
bombs went all around the earth, so the whole world is contaminated
to some
amount.
Buck:
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Buck:
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Another questicn here.
May I follow that just a bit?
Okay.
Before there was any atomic bomb, there was radiation in our
environment, worldwide.
The radiation, naturally occurring radiation, in
the waters of the ocean, in the fish, in the plants.
forever, since the earth was formed.
It has been there
We are also exposed daily to
radiation from the sun, the cosmic rays from the sun.
that has zero radiation.
So there is no place
What we are portraying with these numbers is that
that which is caused by the bombs is not very different
intensity from that which occurs naturally.
in quantity or
As the number gets higher it
is more, it is larger in proportion to what is there naturally.
But no-
where is there no radiation.
Marshallese:
So, here we see on the map of Bikini the figures 4 and with
that you are saying that, that 4 is a level that is safe for habitation?
May we live at Bikini?
Bafr:
I can’t answer that question whether you can live at Bikini.
Bikini
Island has more radiation on it than the other places that are labeled 3,
labeled 2 and labeled 1.
Marshallese:
It seems
ike you said before that all these figures
including 4 were, it is possible to inhabit those places, so now that means
that we are able to eat whatever we want and drink whatever we desire at
Bikini because that is
abeled 4?