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Critical Fortnight. The New York task force, made up of nine high state officials under the chairmanship of Manhattan Lawyer Oscar M. Ruebhausen, based its recommendations on two fundamental facts: 1) in a nuclear attack upon U.S. cities, fallout radiation, the "silent killer," could cause three or four times as many deaths as the blast and heat from exploding nuclear warheads; 2) inexpensive fallout shelters would provide a "very high degree of protection" against fallout radiation. "Although thermonuclear war would be a major disaster," said the task-force report, "the magnitude of the disaster can be markedly limited by protective...
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