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sclentific bocies in the U. Ss. passed resolutions reqvesting
that a study be made of the possible effects on the human race
of continued nuclear _Wweapons testing.
In April, 19555
the Rockefeller Foun?lation provided the
NLS with funds for undertaking a very broad study of the effects
of atomic radiation.
The subject reports are the final fruits
of this study, which will be a continuing ones
—
Whereas the AEC has always been zware of the possible
hazards from fallout from surface bursts of atomic weapons (see
"Effects of Atomic Weapons," 1952), it had been even more aware
of possible hazards to nearby livestock and the public generally
from serious accidents which could conceivably occur to large
production reactors such as those at the Hanford Works,
The
Bikini fallout incident made it abundantly clear that fallout
Was important from the standpoint of continued weapons testing
and as a factor in civil defense planning,
The problems of
radiation effects has been under continuing review by the AEC énd
by the joint U.S., U.K. and Canada Tripartite meetings.
In
addition, the AEC has contributed a major portion of the basic
scientific data for the deliberations of the National Committee
for Radiation Protection and the International Commission for
Radiation Frotection.
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