Just how dangerous to the human race is the radioactive fallout from nuclear-weapons tests? The subject is enormously complex, and to understand all aspects of it requires expert knowledge of many ...

Talk about the perils of atomic radiation has swelled in volume and intensity ever since the U.S. and Russia fired their much-publicized H-bombs in 1954. From public forums and presses all over ...

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WEANLING rabbits given single injections of 500–1,000 µc. strontium-90 per kgm. showed a high frequency of tumours of the jaw1, and preliminary histological studies suggest that they arose in ...