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Early one morning in 1953, a bouncing sound wave hit Cedar City, Utah (pop. 6,106) with the bang of a ton of explosives. People tumbled out of their beds and ran into the streets, thinking it was an earthquake. No one told them that a "nuclear device" 175 miles away could produce such a sound-effect...
...Atomic Energy Commission is taking no chances this time with the sonic aftereffects of its Nevada bomb tests. A team of experts led by Dr. Alvin Graves, scientific advisor for bomb-testing, has just returned from a mission of reassurance through eastern Nevada and southwestern Utah. When the next series of devices begin exploding this month, Dr. Graves hopes that the neighbors will take it calmly...
Last week two University of Utah scientists, Chemist Henry Eyring and Anatomist Thomas F. Dougherty, produced a radical answer...
More than 43 million acres-an area larger than the six New England states combined-are already given over to public recreational use (the Federal Government owns 72% of all the land in Utah and 52% of Wyoming). Some 70% of the farming in the Upper Basin depends on irrigation but only a small portion of the land is irrigated. The Upper Basin is a treasure house: lead, gold, silver, zinc, coal, oil-and now, uranium. But the water is not to be had for full development of these resources...
...attacks the disintegrating cell, which swells and bursts, liberating still more histamine to attack neighboring cells. Over long periods of stress, the spreading destruction can lead to serious illness, e.g., if the cell destruction is near the heart, scar tissue will form, eventually causing heart disease. Moreover, the Utah scientists believe, the chain reaction may be a universal killer, present in every fatal illness, including cancer...