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material, How long after the domb dif he die ~ 24 heurs?
There are two sets of samples, The first group of pecple whe
died cf leukeuia, although thay ware not subjected to the
bombing, Thay eane in later in « rescue capacity, sy
panese ullitery, vithin 2 or 3 days after the bombing. In
that group a minberx cf individuals in the last two years
developed leukenia. Tt was thought that possibly these
pacple were subjected to residual rediation. Ww were sent
sesples of their bones, We aff fink scee traces of reaidual
rediation in this mterial. It was in the créer, as I recall
it, sf around a dpe per gras total activity. These sanples
will have to be locked at again, These my be very
significant samples. The cther set vere two alucet cow
plete sheletcns, which we got fren Nagasaki. These indi~viduals vbo ware about 1,000 to 12,000 from the blast, vere
badly burned and died in about 20 to 24 hours. They were
taried not in the common grave tet in the samp locality.
These bodies were exinvesd about a yeer ago awl material
sent te ws, Those teases aseny from 10 to at most 100
disintagrations per simite per gran cf stronmtivue 9.
It's
vary pussling, We've sent for soil sasplies from these
graves.
Yt's very possible thet there my have been fali-~-
out here,
VOICE:
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Dr. Comr told me this morning that {f thay ingested the
sr” in vater you oveld expect e large fraction of vbat
nes
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