Word: rem
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False Premise. The invaders were recruited in Cuba in recent months by an assortment of Panamanians, including Career Rebel Rubén Miró, who was tried and acquitted for the 1955 assassination of Panamanian President José Antonio ("Chichi") Remón. The Panamanian leaders persuaded the largely ignorant Cubans that Panama was crushed under the iron heel of a military dictatorship and was yearning for freedom. The invasion was supposed to be coordinated with the plot attempted fortnight ago (TIME, May 4) by Roberto ("Tito") Arias, a cousin of Miró's and the husband of British...
Nothing could be done for Technician Kelley. He had received between 6,000 and 18,000 rem (roentgen equivalent man) of radiation, at least ten times the dose that is generally considered deadly. Nine hours after the accident, Kelley became coherent enough to explain that he mistook the blue flash for a short circuit in the stirrer switch. A day later he died. Dr. Thomas Shipman, head of the laboratory's health division, said that the radiation had done fatal damage to his central nervous system...
...significance of nuclear fallout. They found least long-range danger from that which swirls through the troposphere (the part of the atmosphere that goes seven to eleven miles up) for several months before falling. At most, its short-lived isotopes raise annual external marrow and gonad dosage by .0005 rem. But the higher stratosphere (beyond eleven miles) is a reservoir of long-lived isotopes that fall for many years. Chief dangers...
...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 one rem...
...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 total of fallout leukemia cases would be between 25,000 and 150.-000. (But should the threshold be as much as 400 rem. probably no leukemia cases could be caused...