SESSION II DUNHAM: 89 It has been. FREMONT-SMITH: I think this is part of the same thing we're saying. Say they announced a kind of thing that would make everybody feel more comfortable and then they found that they were wrong? DUNHAM: Yes, but some have gone up. FREMONT-SMITH: Yes, DUNHAM: Some have gone up and nobody says boo, The British do the same thing. They wait until there's an international agreement on it before these things are changed anyway, FREMONT-SMITH: Still [think the essential feature is that I don't think one can be very proud of the way we have dealt with the public 1a terms of... DUNHAM: I think there's a great deal of holding back, but to say that the British are so open or so frank with their people compared to us I think is a lot of nonsense because I know just howfrank they are not. FREMONT-SMITH: DUNHAM: love them. FREMONT-SMITH: DE BOER: I'm against the British! [Laughter] I know. I'm teasing. It is not a question of secrecy alone, Industrial Research, In this week's Admiral Rickover characteristically criticized the Navy and contended that the Navy had gone "downhill. ' three things: He listed (1) the so-called new religion" of cost effectiveness studies; (2) the 'Zero Defects Program" which he equated with ‘'mother- hood;"' and (3) “the unwillingness to assume responsibility, '' as the #(cont'd) excludedconsideration of genetic changes manifestable in future generations. Additional information on genetic effects and possible shortening of life span obtained from anima) experiments and human exposure at considerably higher doses indicated a further reduction in 1957 (Addendum to NBS Handbook $9}, The exposure of a larger fraction of the population was also involved. It should be pointed out that no relatable effect has Leen observed for any of these levels,