Word: hazardly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United States is in no position to play with nuclear weapons when no one is certain of the exact safety factor. The wisest course of action under these uncertain circumstances is to ban the testing of the high-powered hydrogen bombs which are the really significant producers of radiation hazard...
Selove explained last night that this condition was possible but by no means certain and also emphasized that the information to which Stevenson erroneously referred has been volunteered in an entirely non-partisan and non-political report by the Radiation Hazard Committee of the American Federation of Scientists...
...Rome's marble-floored National Research Institute, 42 experts from 21 nations gathered last week under the sponsorship of the International Union Against Cancer to explore the case against a worrisome potential cancer hazard: the dyes and additives used in the preparation and preservation of foods, soaps, cosmetics. The conference's conclusion: although the vast majority of dyes, additives and wrapping materials have not yet been adequately tested, there is clear evidence that some possess cancer-causing qualities. Doctors were careful to point out that they were not drawing a bill of particulars, but merely listing substances that...
...year one of the principal transatlantic shipping lanes. By routine but not rule, westbound vessels follow the northern side of Track Charlie, eastbound ships the southern. But that evening the eastbound Stockholm was holding to the northern edge. On a clear night the course holds no serious hazard. But for three days fog had covered the sea from Newfoundland's banks down to Nantucket. The view from a ship's bridge was scarcely farther than the bow. Radar sets searched the seas ahead, but longtime masters with tight schedules reduced speed only slightly for foul weather...
...Thus, the current series of tests [in the Pacific] has produced much of importance, not only from a military point of view, but from a humanitarian aspect. We are convinced that mass hazard from fallout is not a necessary complement to the use of large nuclear weapons...