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neutrons,

information which would suggest

the content of

Normal wanium of the device, isotope ratios of the short
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type of device, and anything that might lead to any more

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clear estimate of yield than has been given.
I am aware that the Congress itself

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the yield,

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statements to the press.

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sensitive piece of information as it was.

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that is, members of the Joint Committee in

So that cannot be regarded as a
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efficiency, proportion of energy released by fission as

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isotope analyses in urine, the estimate cd body burden, and

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the computations of number of fissions ingested, for

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example, per persa, the sort of thing we have on the board

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here.

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I don't think that inhibits one from giving the

While it is classified now, I think we can declassify

CDR. CRONKITE:

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difficulty in writing the report with no restricted data in

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will be able to talk the other people into it or not -- to

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summarize dose in one table as the best estimate and the

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