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Hagerty File
Strauss Papers
Honorable James Hagerty White House, March 26, 1959
Strauss sent Hagerty the following additional information to be
used in refuting charges that the Atomic Energy Commission has
withheld information and data concerning fallout,
In March 1954
after the BRAVO test which first brought fallout to notice,
The President had taken Strauss to a press conference within
hours after his return from when we talked,
A full disclosure
was made of everything that was known, In February of 1955 the
AEC released all subsequently discovered data, Strauss said
that he requested that National Academy of Scientists undere
take a detailed study of the radiation effects of fallout.
The
study was financed by the Rockefeller Foundation,
Scores of the
best radiologists, biologists, and meteorologists were engaged,
A full report was widely published in the summer of 1955, There
were also detailed hearings before the Joint Congressional Committee
in 56 and 57, in which all the information collected by the govern-
ment was fully published.
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