ORDNANCE CORPS Ao ey PICATINNY ARSENAL DOVER. NEW JERSEY :N REPLY REFER frost hospital -alter kePrankel,leve liedical Of:icer TO: nearch 17,1904 the Chairman of whe tomic sunergy Com:ission namiral L.Leob rauss «tonle bnergy Commission weshington,ieC. BEST COPYAVAILABLE a Sir: it is with relation to the recorts in the newspapers of the last days,especially the Kew tork Times of this morning with the neadline:slluclesr cownpour hit ship during test at bikin: and thet "28 Americans and 206 residents of Facific tslends were "unexpectedly exposed to some radiation” that I take the li- berty to aduress you again respectfully. In the h.¥.Times report at the end of it is said:They were the result of contact with the ashes and slow exposure." anc abe the injured fishermen is said: "None are in uangerous concition ei parentlyeireiiasao Ysuzuki ssid the men had suffered from seconc:r radistion burns.The others ... hed swellings of the hanas snu ern as well as falling heir’. In sn other pert of the report is spoke of "atomic particles". these incidents made me point again to & corresponcence I hac. the honour to have with you, relunham and ir.hebel of your vome mission. "pn nis letter to me of culy 10,1955 Lr.Lunham wrotes " The radioiodine released at the time of atomic explosions does net apy ear to be a liniting factor as far as the hagerd fic redioactive fallout is concernedelhe actual amount releesea into the air is diluted to insignificsnt of iocine quentities the stencpoint of the phrsiclosical erfects of iodine by the it reaches the ground outside the imrediate test areée" bYrelebel writing to me in the absence of vrelunhem et culy &',u. seid:" In order that no suess work be involved in enswering your letter I heve taken your letter to one of our physicists anc he ssures me that the best af modern science anc the complete ledge knov- of what we know today about atomic explosions aGus up to thisesven whore todine might be" heavy ' mic oxplosion,this iodine, in the air before en ato- ever if sone of it were mede recdicect* by an explosion,voulu not constitute « fectual health hezarce «5 you mey Enow,this study of follovut is being, worked upon by some soo of the best brains of this country involving physicists, bioplL: cists anc medicel men: )— As I em stneo LO*L ct-ring the icdine content of the tir,its in- fluence on people sensitize a ey thyroid glend hyperfunction ana 2. refore its importance in relation to the inteke of Loulized sult 2 was trying since 1047 ag outlined in my lery tler on pet fa ogprere