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collect and evaluate sample of tuna fish that were caught
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much problem in the 1954 era.
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we made our evaluations, they made theirs and we compared them.
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But he couldn't get his published in Japan, but that didn't
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necessarily matter,
But since they were not the sort of exciting things that would
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He collected some 2000 samples, sent
make a good news story, they are part of the scientific record
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There were available these data in Japan.
but are not a part of the popular record.
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In 1964, during the high altitude tests at Christms
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Island, this program was again repeated and.Dr. Carl Botter
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again collected the samples and sent them tolus.
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som very real pressures on the part of the hysteria-minded
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group in Japan there was floated an expedition to evaluate the
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radiation hazard by a group of reliable scientists.
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was equipped and sent out and we were advised and we met them
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In Honolulu in Jume of 1964 and had long conversations with
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them as to what we had found in the Pacific and, most important
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I think, for this record at: least, we more or less held their
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hand during this operation, because, to say it very frankly,
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they did not expect to return home.
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ing to give their life to the cause, many of them,
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particularly true---
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FREMONT-SMITH:
But under
The ship
They were perfectly willThis was
They expected to be killed by the
blast?
DONALDSON:
They expected to be, at least atthe very
minimum, extremely affected by radiation fallout,
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EISENBUD:
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DONALDSON:
What year was this?
1962,
It seems fantastic again or in-
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credible,to use a much used word, but they had the most
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elaborate air-conditionire system I've ever seen,
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They had long
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