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...provoke a special delight. He reads war histories, likes to carry a gun and believes deeply in following procedures. Just married and out of uniform in 1952, Smith stumbled into a job at the Rocky Flats, Colo., nuclear arsenal, a manufacturing plant for atomic warheads. "I'd heard about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but like everyone else back then I was dumber than a box of rocks about anything nuclear...
...other disciplines in this University, but we see our perspective as being corrective to the distortions of the established disciplines, which are in formed by a Euro-American perception of the world that must bear responsibility for the terrible crimes which have been committed against mankind from slavery to Hiroshima, from Nazi Germany to Vietnam," Cudjoe said...
Most of what is known about the dangers of radiation comes from studies of people exposed to extremely high levels, such as the survivors of the A-bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and patients who were massively dosed with X rays for ailments now no longer treated in this...
...everyone agrees. Says Epidemiologist Robert Miller of the National Cancer Institute, who has studied the Hiroshima victims: "If it is possible to avoid radiation, you should do so. But the Pennsylvania doses being talked about are so low that they could not induce cancer in man. Even children and fetuses would be unaffected." Also, the Environmental Protection Agency says that the emissions from the Three Mile Island plant involved only the inert gases krypton and xenon, which are thought to cause little damage to tissue, and not particles of radioactive iodine and strontium, both of which can enter the food...
Robert Case, a professor at Northeastern University and a member of the Mobilization for Survival, told the crowd that "we have all learned a lesson from Harrisburg.... We've learned from this accident that Hiroshima is in our neighborhood." Case called the Three Mile Island nuclear accident "the greatest domestic problem of the decade...