-4- government has admitted that there is no known safe dose of ionizing radiation, no "threshold" level. This admission is found in a Nuclear Regulatory Commission document (July 31, 1978, SECY-78-415, Policy Session Item from Robert B. Office of Standards Development) Minogue, which urges that the term "permissible dose" be discontinued because it has been misinterpreted to mean "safe." Minogue, the author of this document, states that “Considerations of the linear hypothesis indicate that some risk is associated with any dose of radiation, however THE CALDWELL "SMOKY" STUDY AND DR. ALICE STEWART'S RESEARCH The most significant piece of scientific research to date is the government-sponsored Centers for Disease Control study of the 1957 SMOKY test participants by Dr. Glyn Caldwell. The Caldwell study is the only scientific study we have so far which has investigated a particular nuclear test, and the findina of this study has shown a statistically siqnificant incidence rate of leukemia. In addition, an alarmingly high incidence rate of a very rare form of bone marrow disease similar to leukemia-polycythemia vera (PV)--has been identified among the SMOKY participants in conjunction with the leukemia finding. Both of these diseases are closely associated with exposure to ionizing radiation, In the past month, a British epidemiologist has made the startling discovery that an abnormally high incidence of leukemia and other reticuloendothelial system (RES) neoplasms has occurred among British ex-servicemen who participated in nuclear weapons