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MITCHELL

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words, the statisticians will tell you how much cf 6 sample
you would need to catch these cther people, and they wight be
present in a population at risk of the sise of 2 billion in
very considerable muber.

So we don't know, I mean that's

eompletely unknown figure in terms of the very amall muber
of radium cases thet are unier study.
The muanber of radium cases is scmothing Like 200.
MITCHELL:

ZI would say about 200, will you agree te that Dr. Cemer.
Quite mall ...

So you could say then that the figure which I calowlated here
wight indicate the peint at which you get trouble is 1 par~
cent of the cases. An that would be the definition of sericus effect.

LIBBY:

is anything being done about the Japanese peoplef Did they
get any strontiua into thes?

VOILEs

From wast?

LIBBYs

¥Yrom the bombing. Was there any fallout?

CIA:

Merrill (Eissabad ) has some figures that he's not tco proud
of,
Ee has bonee of an individual cf Nagasaki, but there's a
question aa to ubether the Sr” came directly or subsequently ty exchange of soil containing fissionable

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