oe oe cd VW wom ye es 4 notentialities, Specific rules fsoverning this phfase are included 2) fin all health and ssfety regulations on the handling c* radioactive materialse The succese of the Heslth-Physics program in connection with the recent handling of huge amounts ef radjoactive materials can be measured in the no radioation—injury record of the Manhatten Project and in the svecessful results and conclusions of the various res:arch problems on tra. projecto There is one aspect of Health-Physics that is not pleasent te think abcut and that concerns the preblems which would arise in case of an atomic sorbing ir ony future ware The healthephysicist would be the logical person to regulate the health protecticn of the rescue teams, the abrvcyving of cenlamin: tied areas or evvipmcat and the monitoring of the sehebil ttebson progrem. He would slso agsist and cocperats with the ‘iofneel services i: cheeking the radioative contamination of victins nui the survivers. Thue futures appliceticns ard sucees: of this new field of ecience are -y realized. ef the ftom lomk,. “Te hage stsrted ea ne. era with the develepment The dungers of radioactivity are cummulative end the ects may bs far reachinge Neowever, if the use of t ese radioactive isotedes does invoive the most haaardous potentials, they still can be usec safely in ali fields of encezvor for the benefit of the recé, It thersfore becomes the moral obligation of ontire each individual or cr enizstion working with radioactive materials to fulfill al the reculations and reccommendations of the health-physicist for their own imuediste hralth protection and for the general good of all mankind. Le B * Silverman 7a28=L8