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26th March 1973
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Dear Senator Borja,
I am most grateful to you for sending me a copy of your
Committee's Report to Congress, which I have read with great
interest.
I noticed one apparent error in presentation.
On page
102 it is noted that “One of the Committee's consultants
estimated ... " a 3% increase in radiation, and I take this
to refer to my own report which suggests such a figure,
If
so, I ought to point out that the following sentence is not
correct since I neither did state that "such a small amount
was not likely to be harmful" nor would consider that there
was evidence on which to make such an assertion, except in
the strictly Limited sense that harmful effects are not
"likely" - i.e. would not occur frequemtly - as a result of
low doses or small increments to a given dose.
It is possible however that this second sentence was
intended to refer to a different consultant since I see that on
page 216 Professor Kumatori’s report states that "However, the
amount of fallout /due to the following test/ was not so much
to injure them".
This point clearly requires no formal correction since
my statement is evident from my report, but I thought you would
wish just to have a note of it.
With best wishes,
Yours sincerely,
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