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anticipated from Fallout
The radiation effecte of world-wide fallout fron weapons testing
are delayed effects,
Were the mort pessimistic views eventually proved
to be true, they would, if they could be nezsured at all, appear not as
clear~oub events readily related to the cause, but as zelatively sall
statistical increases in the muber of cases of bone cancer, leuckeda
and congenital abnormalities, or ag a shortening of the average life gan.
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In the field of genetics there are tro principal hazards with
which we are concerned when we stuty the effects of ionising radiation
as a witagenie agent. First, there is the possible risk to the huusn
race a9 a whole,
There is undoubtedly some ancont of radiation which,
if the entire rece were aubject to it, would result in a mutation rate
whieh would lead eventually to degradation of the species.
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other hand, the naxiaun tolerable mitation rate for humans, tolerable
in the sense of survival of the race, is nob known.
The other hasard is the dunger to ema individvals, the personal
tragedies associated with the birth and life of a defective child,
The
HA.S.oN.RC, Comittes estimated that in the namal course of events in
the next 30 years 100,000,000 children will be born in this country and
that there will be among them some 2,000,000 with "tanzible" genetic
defects. In the whole world 2,000,000,000 children will be born dur
ing the same period, of which some 10,000,000 will have tangible genetic
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