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1954 and then I guess we forgot to mention yesterday that the
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Russians started a test in September and the fallout levels
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to Japan were actually heavier in September than they had teen
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during the period when we were testing the previous spring.
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But things had quieted down any way, which lead many of us to
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Things had quieted down in the summer of
believe that the commotion in Japan in that tine was at least
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in part motivated by Communist propaganddsts.
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Well, one of the things that happened in the early
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fall, particularly I think motivated in part by the Russian
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test, was that the Japanese decided that they didn't get the
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most out of the visits that some of us had mide the previous
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spring and they wanted to have a radiobiology conference and
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they invited the Atomic Energy Conference to‘send a group over,
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and about a dozen of us went over in November of 1964 and sat
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with our counterparts in Japan and had two weeks of very worth
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while discussion with them,
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interestingly and apropos of the remarks I made
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yesterday about the schism in Japanses medicine there, there
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were no Japanese physicians in their delegation and we were
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discreetly asked not to include any in ours so that they
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wouldn't have to pick or choose between Tsuzuki and his oppon-
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ents,
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biologists of various kinds but we never did get toa see the
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physicians afterwards, of course,
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So the conference included geneticists, physicists, and
This is very interesting.
But out of that conference we saw sore Japanese data
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in which their SHUNKOTSU MARU expedition, I think--was it in
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May of 1954--I think it was right in the middle of the test,
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wasn't it, Lauren?
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MARU expedition?
Yes,
Do you remember the date of the SHUNKOTSU
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