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or substantially controlled.
In the propaganda piduring nuclear weapons testing (rather than
nuclear war) as the present and grave danger, there has been
resort to unscientific statements and appeals to natural human
fears and emotions.
There is no way to correct this misappre-
hension except with the facts, Unfortunately, these facts are
often only possible of expression in technical language and are
accordingly difficult to publicize widely.
Studies made by the
Medical Research Council (Great Britain) and by the National
Academy of Sciences (United States) were published in 1956 and
we refer those interested in the facts to those reports in full.
Any attempt to abbreviate them or to quote from them would be
However, since both reports are dated in 1956 there is being
currently released a statement dated (date to be provided by
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Biology and Medicine) on radioactive fallout submitted by the
Advisory Committee on Biology and Medicine to the United
States Atomic Energy Commission, This Advisory Committee
is composed of distinguished representatives of the physical
and biological sciences affiliated with independent foundations,
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open to the charge that matter had been removed from context,