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"Appendix B"
Excerpt from Joint Committee on Atomic Energy Hearings on the
"Nature of Radioactive Fallout and Its Effects on Man", June 5 - 7,

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1957, pare 770:
"Senator ANDERSON.

I tried to say at the present level of putting

fission products into the atmosphere.

term if I can use it.

I am trying to get some fixed

If that is not a correct one I am sure Dr. Langham

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can give me a better one.
Dr. NEUMAN.

assumed.

I am not clear what present level of testing has been

I take it to be based on measurements up to the fal} of 1956.

Dr. LANGHAM.

It has averaged roughly 10 megatons for 5 years.

This does not include that the Russians and British have done in the last
few weeks",

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