people's enctions,
During the 1956 Presidential election campaign it
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militery poaition increases the probability of a major war have urged
the biclogienl effects of fallout as a reason for cessation of weapons
testa and have played up uncertainties in our estinates of the upper
limits of possible biological hasards of radiation fron fallout.
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fare, have disecunted theses uncertainties, Both say be assumed to be
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believing that a strong military pesition ie vital to cur netional wel-
motivated by a strong desire for nutional security and world peace and
to be sineere, although not always wholly objective, in the relative
importance which thay aseribe te fallout fran weapons tests or to
weapons teste themselves.
Undoubtedly, many cltisens who conscientiously
abhor war have found an cutlet far theiy emotions in campaigning against
the testing of nuclear weapoas,
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Unfortunately, cessation of testing,
pesticularly on a unilateral basis, does not of itself even begin te
regelve the intricate problema in mman relationships which have in
the past repeatedly led to war,
Another difficulty is one of achieving a proper perspective in
dealing with the mamer in which the effeots which might be produced
vy fallout would appear,
The unknown is always difficalt to grasp and
familiar,
The fact that many of the effects fran fallout from nuclear
testing are onea which do not become apparent at once is baffling to
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engenders fear until it becomes known or can be related to scumething