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Summoned into emergency session three weeks ago amidst Russian cries of threatening war, the U.N. General Assembly met in Manhattan to defuse the international time bombs threatening the peace of the Middle East. Last week, after eight days of palaver, the Assembly brought forth its own novel method of bomb disposal. The technique: wrap the infernal device in verbal cotton wool-this deadens that unpleasant ticking sound-and tiptoe quickly away...
...result of bomb tests to date, caesium 137 dosage in Japan and the U.S. will rise by one hundredth of a rem per capita over the next 30 years. The strontium 90 rise in the next 70 years will vary in each country. For milk-drinking Americans, it will average an estimated .16 rem (or roughly the present dosage from X rays). For rice-eating Japanese, whose crops draw in more strontium because their soil lacks calcium, the per capita increase will be nearly...
What will be the effects? In terms of direct physical effects, the answer bristles with unknowns. Assuming that the world population is 3 billion, U.N. scientists said they believe that current nuclear-bomb fallout accounts for between 400 and 2,000 leukemia cases a year (total: 150,000), as compared to 15,000 from natural radiation. Science is not yet sure how much radiation is needed to produce leukemia. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences estimates the threshold as 40 rem. If this is true, and if all bomb tests stop this year, said the U.N. report, then the ultimate...
...this fallout reading, the committee was praised as "thoroughgoing" by the AEC, which maintains that bomb tests are not critically dangerous. Praise flowed also from such AEC critics as New Mexico's Senator Clinton P. Anderson, vice chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, who took the same report to mean that the AEC has "no place to go, no place to hide." The U.N. committee's own summation of the significance: "The knowledge that man's actions can impair his genetic inheritance . . . clearly emphasizes the responsibilities of the present generation...
...pill that costs 15? looks like your best bet to protect against atomic-bomb radiation," read an A.P. dispatch last week out of Burlington, Vt., citing "top nuclear scientists." The A.P. went on: "You could store it in your medicine cabinet just like aspirin ... If you had 15 minutes' warning of an atomic or H-bomb attack, you could gobble one of the pills." Unfortunately, all this was Utopian wishful thinking...