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ROOT:
Do I understand that you are referring to
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food chain and Dr, Wolfe is referring to radiation?
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high burst, your high burst would not be so effective on the
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water but you're referring directly to radiation and not the
or
particulate fallout matter in the water which gces into the
fallout, aren't you?
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You're
there, whether it's. from fallout or any other source.
WOLFE;
So that
I'm talking about the radiation that gets
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burst whereas you would not get it on the water,
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ROOT:
Yes,
I mean you would get it in a high
come down,
A high burst
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WOLFE:
I don't think it would.
But this i1lustrates
&@ question that has been put to the Division by the Joint
Committee.
They want to know since we're conducting radiation
studies at Oak Ridge and Brockhaven, why do we have to do them
at the test site, for example?
And the problem I think is
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answered in part here with the Rongelap study, that neither
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Oak Ridge nor Brockhaven or Argommor amybody else could have
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difficulties that Bob Conard has reported om.
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to go where the action is,
predicted aceuratéely or could have discovered the thyroid
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And you've got
Sure,
And I don't know how I can put it in langnage
to you, but I don't know whether we could put it on paper for
the Joint Committee, Chuck.
DUNHAM:
We miss your fine hand there,
The Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission is
always being sniped at in top quarters that I think we go
where the action was--I'1l]1 change your word immediately--1t'!s
awfully good,
WOLFE:
Wetve got a different environrent;
it in-
volves different biota and different meteorology and different
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