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DUNHAM:

Is there any comparable

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Yes, we have 150 r dogs in a large

They hit the minimum around 12 to 13 days, and are

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the minimum values.

It is an entirely different picture.

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I don't Know how to interpret these things.

It may be

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that the life span of human cells is entirely different from

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laboratory animals that we are dealing with, or there is

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some other wetrd radiological factor that comes in of

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additivity that prolongs the effect of radiation.

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DR. DUNHAM:

It seemed to me in our little

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discusion this morning we talked about somebody reviewing

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the Japanese data, and iff it looked as though in those

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that survived there was the prolonged effect.

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Argonne cases there was prolonged effect.

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CDR. CRONKITE:

In the two

The bad effect on Japanese data

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is that those who survived the first blood count were taken

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in the third and fourth week after exposure.

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know what they were doing before thet. The Japanese dying

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probably received super-lethal doses of radiation,

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behavior is the same as that of a dog receiving super-lethal

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dose of radiation.

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four weeks where you have to guess what that looks like.

We don't

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Then there is this hiatus of three or

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