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are about 50 to 70 species of fish, probably tenfold as rany

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species of fish,

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great diversity and, of course, then the corals are something

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unique to this part.

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number of species in Puget Sound my have resulted from the

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The sare is true with the algze groups of

One might go through the other biologi-

To what extent do you think the limit in

effects of man on that basin?

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DONALDSON:

Well, these are forms that were native

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there,

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Species that have been exterminated in Puget Sound.

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native forms are there,

We have introduced some forms tere,

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DONALDSON:

There are no
All the

I see,
Well, added to the complexity of the

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environrent and the great distances, we have a great diversity

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of energy releases and the types of releases,

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rather quickly, there have been 59 detonations at this test

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site,

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talked about, some 20,000 tons of T.N.T. on up to, well, 4

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statement was made it might have peen 11, 12 mgatons.

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is the March Ist test of 1954,

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They vary in size from the normal device

Just to review

that we've

That

These devices have varied from rather primitive ones

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by present standards to some very sophisticated ones by the

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measurements on up to 1958.

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great variety of conditions and this is germane to the subject

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we're talking about; from under water to high in the skies,

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from tower tests to tests in barges sitting on the water,

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This reans that fission products varied not only in quantity.

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and some in composition but the induced radiation varied very

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fantastically in quantity and composition,

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and amounts of radioactive nucleides introduced into the en-

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vironment runs almost the entire gamut of possibility. Stafford Warr.

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They were detonated under 2

So the numbers

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Now to try to evaluate in this weird and wonderful
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