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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...atom bombs do not do the job first, the human race may destroy itself just as effectively in a slower, subtler way. Last week, in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Nobel-Biologist Hermann J. Muller of Indiana University warned that even the peaceful use of atomic energy may kill off the human species by loading its germ plasm with too many "mutated" genes...
Delayed Peril. Dr. Muller has often said that physicians should go easy with X rays, to avoid "genetic deaths." Far more dangerous, obviously, is the use of atomic energy, which gives off floods of X rays (gamma rays). "When an atomic bomb . . . kills 100,000 people directly," Dr. Muller says, "enough mutations may have been implanted in the survivors . . . to cause at least as many genetic deaths . . . dispersed throughout the population over . . . thousands of years...
...only bombs are genetically perilous. "Undoubtedly," says Dr. Muller, "the peacetime uses of atomic energy are coming, if civilization survives at all. But . . . due precautions must be taken against possible mutational effects. . . . With [greater] use of atomic power . . . the problem of disposing of the radioactive byproducts . . . becomes more and more general. . . . The simple lead screens which suffice to protect people's reproductive organs from X rays are quite inadequate. . . . The immediate effects of small exposures may be quite invisible, and the mutational effects are so remote that there will be a strong temptation ... to disregard them. Yet these tiny...
...control. Its bee scientists fasten a virgin queen in a small tube and drug her with carbon dioxide. After a while she lays a mass of unfertilized eggs, which can develop only into drones (another odd bee characteristic). The bee men rear these parthenogenetic males to maturity. Then they use one of them to inseminate artificially the same, still-virgin queen. Thereafter her eggs are fertile and develop into females (workers or queens) fathered by her own fatherless...
Battle Pitch. What happened at last week's debarkations depended on what paper you read, and what country you lived in. From behind the burlap screens on the cages, American reporters saw "pitched, bloody battles." Over vivid A.P. and U.P. dispatches, many a U.S. paper used such headlines as TROOPS WIELD CLUBS TO EMPTY SHIP. From behind the same screens, British reporters saw British troops using restraint, helping old women and children down the gangplanks and generally behaving like gentlemen. A typical British headline (in the London Daily Telegraph-): JEWS USE BOTTLES & CLUBS ON TROOPS. The Evening News admitted...