and 28,500 more fatalities in the home, 4,300,000 disabling injuries occurring in the home every year with 2,000,000 more at work. There have been disagreements about the appropriateness of com- paring the risks of automobile accidents with those from fallout because, as the argument goes, in the first case an individual has a choice, while in the second he does not. This is really not so. One really has no choice about using automobiles and other vehicles if he is to be a member of present day society. Nor does one have a choice when he is hit unexpectedly because of faulty driving by the other fellow. Likewise, there are other inherent risks of living in this 20th century world. Congressman Chet Holifield expressed this concept dur- ing the Congressional Hearings on Fallout in August of this year when speaking of new articles on fallout: "lo. . we are faced with certain factors in this world that we have to deal with. We have to set up countermeasures of force, and we have to use the instruments which others are using in setting up their forces against us. And it so happens that facing the realities of life, we have had to set up a countetforce to atomic hydrogen weapons. " . And so it seems to me that somewhere in your articles there might be something said in relation to the security of the Nation, and the factual situation that we face in the world, rather than most of the articles, I think, that come out along this line, which are condemnatory of having testing of any kind, and certainly we have been faced with the situation where the development of weapons had to keep pace with the development of weapons in potential enemy countries. And therefore, it wasn't a choice between what we desired 100 percent, but we were faced with a factual situation where we had to do certain things, and the risk has to be assumed by the population just the same as the risk of war, and the