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...radioactivity produced by the Bikini bombs," Dr. Teller points out, "was detected within about one week in the United States. It was weak, com pletely harmless. . . . But there is a threshold beyond which radioactivity has lethal effects. . . . Sufficiently strong radio activity will kill all living tissue...
...atrocity-until, months after the event, they heard that foreign publications had suggested that it was. Nor are the Japanese the only ones still slowly acquiring fresh concepts of The Bomb. Americans are learning, too. Dr. Stafford L. Warren, who was the chief radiological safety officer at the Bikini bomb tests, has made several informative speeches since his return. Last week, as he took up his duties as dean of the Medical School of the University of California at Los Angeles, he was ready with another...
...Warren was discussing the underwater test at Bikini, a blast that grows more & more sinister the longer scientists study its results. The first four atomic bombs were exploded in the air. Their radiological aftereffects were relatively slight; the dangerously radioactive materials they released were largely sucked up into the substratosphere. But says Dr. Warren: "That second one at Bikini really ties this business up in a knot. . . . Literally astronomical quantities of radioactive material had become intimately mixed with the sea water, mist and spray which accompanied the formation of the giant mushroom of water which rose from the lagoon. . . . [Such...
...Warren's sentences suggested the full horror perhaps better than anything else: "I'm not so worried about the killing of 50 to 75 million people as I am about the wiping out of resources." Dr. Warren is not callous or unkind. (His precautions at Bikini were so thorough that "not a doggone participant got into any trouble.") What Dr. Warren meant was simply that atomic bombs, concentrated on the world's most productive areas, would reduce, by much more than 75 million, the number of people the planet could support...
Darwin's atoll theory won fairly wide acceptance, but it was not checked conclusively until the Navy decided to explode two atomic bombs at Bikini Atoll last year. During the preliminary survey, scientists mapped the underground structure of the atoll by seismic methods: 126 depth charges exploded at various points on the bottom of the lagoon sent waves through the coral and underlying material. The denser the medium, the faster such waves travel. By measuring how long the waves took to reach listening instruments, the Navy's scientists could estimate the density of the rock at various depths...