Word: fallouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EVER since the first H-bomb explosion (TIME, April 12, 1954), the world has become increasingly worried about the effect of radioactive fallout on the health of the human race. The question of stopping or limiting the testing of nuclear weapons is not purely scientific. It is also a military and moral problem, but most of the pertinent facts are scientific. For the opinions of the world's scientists on this disquieting matter, see SCIENCE, How Dangerous Are the Bomb Tests...
...Fallout...
...world remains uncontaminated by radiation (or is it too late for that?), there is always the possibility of making peace with our enemies. But you can't make peace with a world infiltrated with fallout...
Beyond the facts released by the Air Ministry-that the bomb was dropped from a four-engined Vickers Valiant painted gleaming white-Macmillan would add only that "first indications are that the local fallout [of dangerous radioactive substances] was almost negligible...
...Minister Macmillan, then trudged off to the House of Commons to buttonhole members. In the House of Lords, Laborite peers cited the estimate of Nobel Prize Chemist Linus Pauling of California's Institute of Technology that 1 ,000 people would die of leukemia as a result of the fallout of the Christmas Island explosion. Earl Attlee, Labor's former Prime Minister now in the House of Lords, said, "Some scientists think we are going to poison the upper atmosphere and destroy future generations, and some do not. I would like to give the benefit of doubt to posterity...