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terms of weight, space, money or hazards to operating personnel.
; Nuclear weapons are an extremely important component of our total
weapons capability which is regarded as the principal deterrent to any
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world.
ment is necessary to maintain the effectiveness of that deterrent.
The effects of blast, heat, and immediate nuclear radia&:ion from
a nuclear weapon test are localised within the testing areas.
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Continued testing of nuclear weapons to ensure continued improve-
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The most bio-
logically important substance found in this fallout is radioactive
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Since the start of nuclear tests, careful measurements have
been made of the distribution of this material over the earth's surface,
in all forms in which it might be expected to occur.
this study are reassuring.
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The amount of radioactive strontium now present
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