- Ste George = 14 .vional Laboratory, a leading center of utomlc research on Long Ieland and is chuimasn of the National Academy of Sciences advisory committeso to the Atomic my Casualty Commission, which maiataina a continuing atudy of the survivors of iireshima and Nagasald. He is also chairman of a committea on environmental aoolth or the Amerdean Academy of Pediatrics. In that capacity he organized a sricial conference on tno Pediatric Significance of Peacetime Radioactive Fallout ‘ . 1 s ‘. : .4 San Diogo, California, last March. aa as - * Sponsored by the Academy and financed by eee Redtolomecai Health Division, “ia the conference provided lively arguments between reprocentativos and govermment over the assossment of fallout risks and the establish~ ment of safeguard moasurese w XX ‘ folleut and take a Airmor stand on’it. p, "SS uw S Dro farv was also criticai of the medical profession for being so slow to faco "Wo have the first generation to row up t in Zaliout, and we should do as we do in other medical problems, assums the worst dlamosis until we prove it's untenable. vent Giscasoe Our objectivo here is to pre~ Therefore, wo arc looking for the first, vory carly warning symptoms. this is the time to take action, not after we've got a full-blown discase." ‘Thon St. George's brushes with the radioactive dragon began, in 1951, fallout surveillance and protective guides were rather sketchy. Prior to 1951 all testing, for the historic opening shot of the atomic age at Alamagordo, in july, 1945, hag besa conducted in the mid-Pacific, at:Rikini or Eniwotek. The only neighbors of the Pacific Proving Grounds were the Polynesions|on a few coral atolls, some of whom, in 1954, were too close for comfort. Tho Nevada Test Site is much less remote. Its 1,250 square miles of low mountains, mesas and flat desert are within sasy ear-shot of St. George whon the wind is right, and the people of southwest Utah heard a great many of the shots fired thoro,. 2952. One of the first and loudest was the test called "Big Shot," on April 22, The most powerful detonated up to that time, it was bigger than the 20-kiloton