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...Libby is not alarmed by strontium 90. In his widely publicized letter to Missionary-Physician Albert Schweitzer (TIME, May 6), he said that its threat to growing children is at present about the same as from "the additional dosage that a resident at sea level would receive from cosmic rays if he moved from a beach to the top of a hill a few hundred feet high...
Concerning the article on "The Peril of Strontium 90" [May 6], I feel very strongly that we should heed Dr. Schweitzer's warning...
Thank you for the tranquilizer prescribed by gentle Dr. Libby. It is a vast relief to know that we may dismiss from our minds the fears that have haunted Dr. Schweitzer. Surely it is needless to face fearful facts when playing ostrich is so much more comforting...
...answer, crusty Viscount Cherwell, famed physicist and Churchill's chief scientific adviser during World War II, scathingly denounced the protesters as "hysterical people." Said Cherwell: "This sort of thing has become particularly obnoxious since universally respected figures such as the Pope and Dr. Schweitzer have been persuaded to intervene. How they can allow themselves to be taken in by the inaccurate propaganda of the friends of Russia is hard to understand." The facts are, said Cherwell, that "the number of gamma rays we get from the radioactive materials in the walls of our houses is 50 times greater than...
...some it may seem appropriate that the United States' latest series of nuclear tests should be held during Armed Forces Week. To others, however, the tests are inappropriate at any time. Albert Schweitzer, Pope Pius XII, the West German Bundestag, the British Labor Party, and the Japanese government have all declared their desire for a suspension of the test explosions...