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Acknowledgments                       8
Preface                               9
Introduction                         10
Thunderstorm in Troy                 13
The Unheeded Warning                 16
A Small Error in the Assumptions     22
A Ray of Hope                        26
The Evidence Begins to Emerge        33
The Hidden Tragedy of Hiroshima      36
Death before Birth                   40
The Crucial Test                     43
Both Young and Old                   51
The Clouds of Trinity                55
The Battle for Publication           59
Counterattack at Hanford             63
The Public's Right to Know           70
The Price of Secrecy                 74
Fallout at Shippingport              85
The Minds of the Children           106
Incident at Three Mile Island       117
Too Little Information Too Late     127
The Present Danger                  139
Bibliography                        159
Glossary                            171
Index                               172

AAAS see American Association for the Advancement of Science)
ABC Evening News, 200
Abelson, Philip, 23,75, 93
Abortions, spontaneous (see Fetal deaths)
Accidents, 178
   major risk of, 201-202
Advisory Committee on the Biological Effects of Radiation 
   (National Academy of Science), 29
AEC (see U.S. Atomic Energy Commission)
Ahearne, Commissioner (NRC), 221-222
Alamogordo (see Trinity)
Albany-Troy incident, 1-5, 7, 8, 9, 12, 20, 21-22, 23-24, 25, 
      26, 31 33, 34, 40, 102-103, 104, 149, 156, 178, 179, 180
   and childhood leukemia, 41-45, 47, 48, 50-52, 55-59, 61, 
      75, 81, 95, 106, 107, 113-115 124
   and fetal deaths, 57-59, 64
Alexander, R. E., 52-53
Alternatives to nuclear power, 134
Alvarez, Luis, 86, 97
American Academy of Pediatrics, 152
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 22, 
   23
American Journal of Public Health, 101
American Psychological Association, 241
Anderson, John, 244, 245
Antiballistic missiles, 97-98, 112-113, 178, 195, 212, 270
Arakawa, E. T., 49
Associated Press, 52, 112, 198, 217
Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, 48, 104
Atomic Energy Commission (see U.S.)
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, 174, 175
Atomic tests (see Tests)
Atomic war (see Nuclear)
"Average exposure" and "safe levels," 166, 207

Bachman, Leonard, 159, 161
Backer, Julie E., 68
Bainbridge, Kenneth, 86
"Baneberry" (bomb), 178-181, 182
Barium, 25
Barry, Theodore M., 153
Beaver County Times, 154, 160-161, 166
Beaver Valley (see Reactors)
Bell, Steven, 184-185, 186, 188, 191
Berlin crisis, 8, 19
Beta radiation, 148-149, 150, 210, 223,230
Biles, Martin, 157
Birthweight, decline of, 67, 68, 69-70, 104, 108, 116, 128, 
   184, 194, 238, 239, 250
Blind trust, 178
Bradford Peter, 219-220
Brandon Albert, 141-142, 146, 154, 174-175
"Bravo," 182
Brody, Jane, 256, 257, 258, 261
Brookhaven (see Reactors)
Bross, Irving, 165-166, 263
Brown, Lester, 208
Brown, Stuart, 75, 93
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 75, 96-98, 116, 117
Bureau of Radiological Health (see Pennsylvania;  U.S.)
Burr, W. W., 166
Byrd, Robert, 35

Campbell, Hubert, 80
Canadian Atomic Energy Laboratories, 163
Cancer, 11, 14, 20, 21, 27, 28, 30, 32, 61, 67, 73, 78, 85, 
      100, 105, 106, 109, 116-117, 118, 147-148, 150, 153, 
      160, 161, 162, 166, 172-173, 175-176, 178, 186, 190, 
      197, 210, 218, 241, 247
   childhood, 78, 80, 118, 124, 192, 194, 202, 247, 248, 250
   Japan, 81
   and DNA, 16, 31, 164
   "free radical" oxidation, 163-165
   and lawsuits, 209, 269
   lung, 83, 162, 187, 191
   pancreas, 162
   prostate, 162
   and servicemen in bomb tests, 206
   studies, 10-17
   thyroid, 9, 23, 25-26, 29, 31, 33-34, 39, 100-102, 202, 
      210, 213, 214
Cancer, social, 269-273 
   (See also Leukemia)
Carbon, radioactive, 64
Carter, President Jimmy, and gas at Harrisburg, 209
"Case for Missile Defense, A" (Dyson), 97-98
CDC (see U.S. Center for Disease Control)
Center for Health Statistics (see U.S. National)
Cesium, 64, 90, 108, 120, 123, 127, 130, 131, 137, 146, 149, 
   150, 152, 180, 187, 245
"Change in the Mortality Trend in the United States, The" 
   (Moriyama), 77-78
Chase, Helen C., 74
"China Syndrome," 202
China Syndrome, The (film) 198
Cincinnati Environmentai Task Force, 153
Cincinnati Inquirer, 1, 53
Clark, Herbert, 1-5, 8, 9, 25, 40, 49, 178, 179, 180
Coal gassification, 134
Committee on Nuclear Information, 22
Commoner, Barry, 22-23, 33, 65, 213
Congenital defects, 20, 28, 47, 61, 100, 101, 104, 105-107, 
   127, 133, 150, 182, 192, 194, 213, 214-215, 218, 238
Congressional hearings, 28-40, 100, 118
Connecticut Parent-Teachers Association, 242
Connecticut Yankee (see Reactors, Haddam Neck)
Conway, John T., 28, 34, 38, 95
Cosmic rays, 37, 123
Credibility of critics, destruction of, 251-261
Credibility of public officials, 259, 263, 265 
   (See also Governmental deception)
Creitz, Walter, 202, 203
Crithclow, Paul, 266
"Critical Mass" (Nader), 177
Cuban missile crisis, 22, 217
Cumulative effects of radiation, 15-17, 31, 109-110
Curry, Bill, 210-213, 217

David, Henry P., 183-184
Day of Trinity (Lamont), 86
Decontamination, difficulty of, 4, 25
Defense system, nuclear (see Nuclear war)
DeGroot, Morris H., 126, 136, 139-140, 141, 151, 153, 160, 
   168-171
Denton, Harold, 218-222
Detroit Free Press, 252
Diabetes, 162
DiNunno, Joseph, 157-159
"Dissident" scientists, 251-252, 269 
   (See also Credibility of critics)
DNA and cancer, 16, 31, 164
Dodd, Christopher, 245
Douglas, Charlotte A., 68
Downs, Hugh, 115-116
Dresden (see Reactors)
Duquesne Light Company, 142, 145-146, 150, 154, 155, 157, 174
Dyson, Freeman J., 97-98

Earth Day, 125
Edsall, John T., 96
Educational Testing Service, 186
Effects of Nuclear Weapons, The (AEC publication), 87
Egginton, Joyce, 111, 112
Eisenbud, Merrill, 2, 64
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 270
Electric power production, 134 
   (See also Reactors)
Ellis, T. K., 108
Embryo, fetus, sensitivity of, 109, 111, 139, 206, 238, 257 
   (See also Pregnancy)
English, Spoffard, 117
Environment (magazine), 69
Environment Pittsburgh, 146
Environmental Protection Act (see National)
Environmental Protecbon Agency (see U.S.)
EPA (see U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
Esquire magazine, 112-113

Fallout data, public access to, 63, 264-265, 267, 268-269, 
      270-273
   (See also Governmental deception)
Federal Radiation Council, 36, 123, 134, 144, 221
Federation of American Scientists, 19, 38, 75 
   National Council of, 96-97
Fertility, decline of, 104
Fetal deaths, 56-59, 61, 62-64, 67, 68, 73, 74, 78, 85, 
      93-98, 104, 105-106, 108-110, 117, 118, 137, 185, 209, 
      218, 232, 238-239, 247-248, 267
   and Trinity, 88-91
Fetal development (see Embryo)
Finch, S., 48
Flaherty, Pete, 142, 146
Ford, Daniel, 203
Foster, John S., 35
Fouchard, Director, 219-220, 221, 222
Frankel, Max, 256
Frankenstein, 270
"Free radical" oxidation, 163-165
Freedom of information, 270 273
Freedom of Information Act, 210, 217
Friedell, Hyman, 31
Fuel processing plants (see Nuclear)

Gamma radiation, 3, 143, 150, 180, 184, 201, 202, 205, 210, 
      223, 230, 231
Gases, radioactive, 127, 128, 129-131, 140, 141, 142, 143, 
      145, 149, 150-151, 162, 173-176, 249, 263, 266
   (See also Three Mile Island)
General Electric Company, and economics, 121-122
Genetic damage, 44-45, 115, 117, 177 164, 197, 209, 250
   detection of, 48 49, 56
Geothermal energy, 134
Gerusky, Thomas M., 160, 167, 198, 199, 242, 243
Gibson, Albert, 230
Gilinsky, Victor, 219-221, 224, 230
Gilligan, John J., 153
Goddard, Maurice K., 160
Gofman, John, 116-117, 118
Goldman, Morton, 157-159, 175
Good Morning America (ABC-TV), 247, 248-249
Gossick, Lee V., 218-219
Government agencies, officials and testimonies, 208
Government leaders, blind trust in, 178
Governmental deception, 211-215, 217-227, 230-232, 245-246, 
   255-259, 264-273
Graham, Saxon, 43, 48
Graves, Alvin and Elizabeth, 86-87
Greenberg, Bernard, 69
Greenberg, Frank, 258, 260
Greenwald, Peter, 103, 113-115
Griem, M. L. 105-106, 107
Griffiths,Joel 154-159, 160-161, 167
Grotevant, Bob, 166
Groves, Leslie R., 87

Haddam Neck (see Reactors)
Half-life (isotopes), 24-25
Hanford, 89, 90, 131-132
   conference at, 99, 102-110, 111, 112, 116, 182
Harley, John, 2, 40, 93-95, 107, 156-158, 169
Harrisburg (see Reactors, Three Mile Island)
Harrisburg Patriot (newspaper), 252-253, 255, 256, 266, 267
Harrowsmith (magazine), 252, 253-255, 263
Hayes, Harold, 112-113
Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York, 67
Health Physics (journal), 159, 163
Health Physics Society, 51-53, 111-112, 120, 152
Health Science Center, 160
Hendrie, Chairman (NRC), 220-223, 224, 225-226
Hewitt, David, 11, 12, 50
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 10, 21-22, 30, 42, 56, 67, 72, 78, 
      80, 81, 138, 161-162, 163, 164, 165, 175, 178, 184, 
      189, 200, 270
   and leukemia from fallout, 47-50, 104
Hirst, Katherine M., 68
Holifield, Congressman, 36, 39-40, 100, 214
Hosmer, Craig, 35-38
Human obligations, 273
Hypothyroidism, 239, 253-254, 256, 258-259, 264

Immune defenses, body's, 269
Indian Point (see Reactors)
Infant mortality, 63, 64-75, 77, 78, 85, 88, 90, 93-98, 100, 
      102, 107, 108-110, 112, 116-117, 118, 125-133, 139, 
      141, 150-152, 156, 161, 163, 165, 166, 171-172, 176, 
      181, 182, 183, 184, 185-186, 192, 197, 210, 218, 223, 
      229-230, 232, 243-248
   Chile, 82-83
   Hawaii, 71-72
   and Three Mile Island, 232-239, 241, 248-268
   and Trinity, 88-91
"Infant Mortality and Nuclear Tests" (Sternglass), 98
Information, public right to, 270-273
Ingraham, Hollis, 45
Ink, Dwight A., 212, 214
Institute for Biophysics (Moscow), 104
Internal exposure (see Isotopes and body organs)
International Radiation Protection Association, 159
Iodine, radioactive, 8, 12, 24, 34, 39, 58, 63, 64, 89, 123, 
   130-131, 138, 144, 146, 149, 152, 178, 179, 180, 182, 187, 
   188, 189, 190, 193, 199, 206, 213, 228, 238, 239, 242-243, 
   245, 259, 265
Isotopes, 36-37, 89, 122, 123, 163 
   and body organs, 7-8, 12, 20, 33-34, 37, 44, 100, 104-105, 
      108-110, 120, 127-128, 179-180
   half-life, 24-25
   short-lived, 63, 64-65, 91, 125, 133, 218-219, 246

Jackson, Rex, 186
Japan, 81
   (See also Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
Japanese Cancer Society, 161
Johnson, Lyndon B.;  Johnson admin-stration, 213
Joint Committee on Atomic Energy (Congressional), 95, 135
   hearings on low-level radiation effects, 28-40, lOO-101, 
      118, 119-120, 123, 213, 214-215
Jones, Charles, 157, 158
Jones, Clifford, 265-266
Journal of the American Water Works Association, 5, 25

Kaye, Martin B., 137
Kemeny, George; Kemeny Commission, 227-228, 232, 233, 239, 
   247, 248-249, 250, 253
Kendall, Henry, 177, 200-202, 203, 208
Kennedy, Edward; Kennedy Committee, 207, 210, 223
Kennedy, John F., 213
   address on fallout, 27-28
Kepford, Chauncey, 249-250
Khrushchev, Nikita, 213
Kinch, Sandra, 113-115
Knapp, Harold, 38-39
Kohn, Bernd, 152
Kotin, Paul, 160
Krey, Phil, 157
Krypton, 89-90, 131, 263

Lade, James H., 23-26, 41-43, 45, 47, 49, 50-52, 55, 56, 103, 
   113-114
LaFranchi, Stephen, 259
Lamont, Lansing, 86, 87
Lancet (journal), 124
Lapp, Ralph, 9-10, 20, 21, 242s, 33, 36, 41, 65, 213
Lave, Lester B., 137, 139-140
Learning ability (see Mental retardation)
Leinhardt, Samuel, 137
Leukemia, 30, 37, 44, 67, 80, 85, 101, 118, 147, 176, 214-215
   and Albany-Troy incident, 41-45, 47, 48, 49, 50-52, 55-59, 
      61, 75, 81, 95, 103, 106, 107, 113-115, 124
   childhood, 9, 11, 15, 20, 21-26, 27, 28, 36, 37-38, 
      43-44, 61, 73, 78, 102, 105, 165, 194, 211-215, 218
   and Japan, bombs on, 47-50, 104
   and lawsuits, 209
   radiologists, among, 31
   and servicemen in bomb tests, 209
   and X-rays, 11-17, 20, 23-24, 30, 31-33, 35-36, 37-38, 
      43-44, 48, 104, 105-107, 124, 202
Lewis, E. B., 16-17, 31, 213
Lewis, Richard S., 96, 97
Lincoln, Abraham, 272
Livermore Laboratories, 116-117
London Observer, The, 111, 112, 115
Los Angeles Times, 243
Lung damage, 128-129
Lyon, Joseph L., 211

McCarthy, Joseph R.;  McCarthy years, 217
McDowell, Ernest, 252
MacLeod, Gordon, 253-254, 255-260, 263, 264-266, 267
MacMahon, Brian, 14-15, 17, 21-22, 23, 28,30, 31, 35-36, 
      37-38, 42, 44, 80, 107
   at Congressional hearing, 31-33
Magnetohydrodynamics, 134
"Mandan Milk Mystery, The," 69-70, 90
Marshall, David, 146
Marshall Islands, 182
Martel, E. A., 94
Maternal mortality, 73, 80
Mattson, Roger, 225-227
Mayo, Anna, 166, 167
Mays, Charles W., 29, 31, 36, 179
Measuring fallout, 9495, 107, 156
Melt-down, 198, 199, 200, 201, 206, 207, 209, 221, 223, 
   224-226, 227
Mental retardation, 127, 181-195, 239, 241-242
   economic effects of, 193-194
Meteorology and Atomic Energy (AEC publication), 89
Metropolitan Edison Company, 202
   report on Three Mile Island, 227-228, 230-231, 235
Milk, radioactive, 8-9, 24-25, 27, 33, 34, 39, 51, 59, 63, 
   64, 65, 69-70, 90, 91, 94, 107, 108, 123, 130-131, 
   137-138, 143-145, 146, 148, 149, 150, 153, 155, 156, 169,
   174, 179, 180, 181, 182, 187, 188, 189, 213, 228-229, 
   243-246, 269
Millstone (see Reactors)
Miscarriages (see Fetal deaths)
Missiles (see Antiballistic)
Mitchell, John M., 153
Mobilization for Survival, 199
Money talking, 167, 176, 206-207, 266
   (See also Nuclear industry)
Moorhead, William S., 100, 214
Morgan, Karl Z., 51-52, 159, 168-171, 210
Morgan Russell, 22, 26, 45
Moriyama, I. M., 66-67, 73, 77-79, 128
Mormons, 189-191
Mortality rates, general, 77-83
   in Chile, 82-83
   in Japan, 81
Moskalev, Y. 1., 104, 108-109, 116
Muller, H. Arnold, 266 267, 268

Nader, Ralph, 177
Nagasaki (see Hiroshima)
National Academy of Science, 29, 30, 152
   committee on radiation, 159, 228
National Advisory Committee on Radiation, 22, 45
National Environmental Protection Act, 142-143
National Institute of Environmental Health Science, 160
Neel, J. V., 48, 56, 57
Nevada (see Tests, atomic)
New England Journal of Medicine, 50, 211
New Mexico (see Tests, atomic)
New York State Health Department 4, 23-24, 25, 26, 41, 45,
   50, 52, 55, 95, 102-103, 104, 107, 113-114, 115
New York Times, The, 43, 111, 113-114, 166, 181, 
   182, 183, 255-259, 260, 266, 267, 268, 271
News coverage of fallout danger, 111-118, 221, 251-259, 268
Nixon, Richard M.;  Nixon administration, 153, 167, 177, 268
North Dakota, contaminated milk in, 69-70, 90
   infant mortality, 89
NRC (see Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
Nuclear defense system (see Nuclear war)
Nuclear engineering, 10
   (See also Reactors, design)
Nuclear fuel cycle, 177, 245
Nuclear fuel processing plants, 129-133, 137
Nuclear industry, saving, 209, 210-215, 223-224, 232, 245, 
      249
   (See also Credibility)
Nuclear power, alternatives to, 134
Nuclear reactors (see Reactors)
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), 199, 201-203, 210, 
      242, 245, 247, 249, 269
   and Three Mile Island, 217-227, 230 232, 255, 263
Nuclear suicide, 273
Nuclear war, 9-10, 13, 19-20, 22, 97-98, 99, 111, 133, 189, 
      193, 213, 270, 271
   defense system, 97-98, 112-113, 178, 195, 212, 270
   (See also Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
Nucleonics Week, 144
N.U.S. Corporation, 142, 148, 153, 154, 155-159, 162, 166, 
   168-169, 175, 243

Obligations, human, 273
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, 218
Office of Radiological Health, 160
Official statements, credibility of, 259 263, 265
   (See also Governmental deception)
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, 153
Oregon Health Science Center, 259
Oxidation, "free radical," 163-165
Oxygen molecules, action of radiation on, 269

Pacific (see Tests, atomic)
Pancreas, 162
Parsons, William, 86
Pauling, Linus, 213
Pawlick, Thomas, 252, 253-254, 255, 256, 260, 263, 264, 269
Peach Bottom (see Reactors)
Pediatrics, 259
Pendleton, Robert C., 179
Pennsylvania Bureau of Radiological Health, 198
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources, 148, 
   160, 265
Pennsylvania Department of Health, 170, 232-233, 236, 239, 
   253-255, 258, 264, 267
Pennsylvania State Bureau of Radiation Control 242
Petkau, Abram, 163-165
Pfeiffer, E. W., 69
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 146, 217, 218
Pituitary gland, 128, 190
Plutonium, 89, 102, 129, 200
   theft of by terrorists, 177
Pregnancy and radiation (X-rays and fallout), 11-17, 21, 
   23-26, 30, 31-33, 35, 36, 44, 48, 104-107, 108-110, 115, 
   124, 139, 181-195, 202, 205-208, 209, 218, 224, 227-230, 
   238-239, 243, 257, 264, 267
Prelesnik, Warren L., 236, 252
Price, Melvin, 30, 38, 100, 214
Project Plowshare, 23, 29
Public Health Service (see U.S.)
Public officials, credibility of, 259, 263, 265
   (See also Governmental deception)

Rabinowitch, Eugene, 75, 96
Radford, Edward P., 159, 168-172
Radiation Health Data and Reports, 144, 145, 180, 268
Radio Chemistry and Nuclear Engineering Research Center, 152
Radioactivity levels, standards of (see U.S. Atomic Energy 
   Commission)
Radon, 162
Rain and fallout, 1-5, 9, 20, 21, 25, 41-45, 50, 57, 58, 
   67-68, 70-72, 87-91, 104, 129, 130, 134-136, 144, 149, 
   199, 229, 242
Rasmussen estimate (risk of major accident), 201
Reactors, nuclear, 10, 13, 119-129, 133-176, 186, 189, 190, 
      193, 194, 211, 212, 232, 238, 247, 268, 270
   Beaver Valley, 140 142, 154, 155, 157, 158, 159, 167, 
      174-175, 176, 212
   Brookhaven, 136
   design-types and amounts of release, 121-124, 129, 132, 
      136, 140, 198, 244
   Dresden, 120 121, 122-124, 126-128, 131, 136, 166, 243
   Haddam Neck, 244
   Hanford, 89, 90, 131-132
   Indian Point, 132, 136, 166, 243
   and mental retardation, 241-242
   Millstone, 197, 212, 219, 232, 242-248
   Peach Bottom, 242
   Shippingport, 119-121, 123, 136, 139-177, 210, 212, 233, 
      243, 244, 248, 260, 269
   and fact-finding commission, 159 173
   Shoreham, 166, 185
   Three Mile Island, 197-215, 217-239, 242, 246-247, 248, 
         249, 250, 251, 271
      and infant mortality, 232-239, 254 268
      Senate hearings on, 208 210, 230
      tapes of NRC proceedings, 217-227
   TRIGA, 132-133
   Waltz Mills, 163
   Windscale, 39
   Zimmer, 152, 153
   (See also Nuclear fuel-processing plants)
Reilly, Margaret A., 160, 167, 199
Reiss, Eric, 33-34, 36, 213
Respiratory diseases, 78-79, 81, 127-129
Reston, James, 271-272
Reynolds, Frank, 200
Rickover, Hyman C., 121, 140, 209
Roberts, Richard, 252
Rocchio, Ronald, 88-89
Rosenthal, Harold, 108
Rostand, Jean, 273
Roswell study (leukemia), 43-44
Rotblot, Joseph, 65

"Safe levels" and "average exposures," 166, 207
Sagan, Leonard A., 103-104, 107, 115-116, 117
St. Louis Committee (Citizens' Group) for Nuclear 
   Information, 33, 69
SALT treaty, 178
Sashin, Donald, 88-89
S.A.T. (see Scholastic Aptitude Tests)
Scholastic Aptitude Tests (S.A.T.), 181-195, 241-242
Schubert, Jack, 213
Schull, W. J., 48
Science magazine, 9, 20, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 32, 38, 41, 
   45, 51, 52, 55, 62, 75, 93, 95-97, 103, 113, 211
Scientist and Citizen (magazine), 69
Seaborg, Glenn, 23
Segi, M., 161-162
Selk, Merry, 96
Sensitivity to radiation, degrees of, 165-166
Shapiro, Samuel, 67
Shapp, Milton, 151, 154, 159, 167, 210, 233
Shelters, fallout, 19-20
Shippingport (see Reactors)
Shoreham (see Reactors)
Siberia (see Tests, atomic)
"Simon" (bomb), 2, 5, 12, 149, 156
Smith, Harry, 160, 168-172
Social cancer, 269-273
Solar energy, 134
Speller, J. Finton, 160
Stein, Gary, 260
Steinfield, Jesse L., 100-101, 214-215
Sternglass, Ernest J., 19-21, 49-51
   at Congressional hearing, 35-38
   credibility attacked, 251-261
   Harrisburg, surveying in, 204-206, 219, 249
   papers and testimony on low-radiation danger, 21-28, 31, 
      32-33, 38, 51-53, 55-56, 75, 93-98, 102-103, 104-105, 
      107-112, 116, 197, 211, 227, 232, 237-238, 249, 253, 
      260-261
Stewart, Alice, 10-17, 20, 21-22, 23, 28, 30, 31, 32, 35-36, 
      42, 44, 50, 80, 102, 105-107, 124, 139, 202
Stillbirths (see Fetal deaths)
Stockton (science editor of The N.Y. Times), 256-257
Storer, John, 115-116, 117
Stromholt, Hal, 112
Strontium, 7-8, 12, 24n, 25, 63, 64-65, 70, 72, 73, 90, 91, 
   93-94, 104, 107, 108-109, 116, 120, 122, 123, 127, 128, 
   130, 131, 137-138, 143-145, 146, 149, 150, 152, 153, 156, 
   187, 189, 190, 211, 213, 243, 244, 245-246, 248, 269
Suicide, national, 272
Synergism, 83, 162, 191

Tamplin, Arthur, 116-117, 118, 256
Teller, Edward, 28-29, 65
Terry, Luther L., 100
Tests, atomic, 8-9, 10, 13, 15, 19, 20-22, 25, 27, 28, 38, 
      39, 57, 59, 61, 62, 63, 69, 70, 71, 72, 74, 79, 
      112-113, 122, 123, 127, 131, 136, 137, 138, 143, 144, 
      145, 148, 152, 162, 183, 185, 187, 192, 195, 209, 
      239, 243, 244, 245, 263, 270
   Algeria, 69
   China, 61, 62, 74, 137, 144, 152, 154, 156, 178, 228-229, 
      242, 244, 245, 259
   effects of, official lying about, 210- 215
   hydrogen bomb, 21, 50, 62, 63, 64, 65, 69, 70, 72, 81, 
         82, 99, 182, 212
      Russian, 8, 79
   Nevada, 2, 12, 33, 43, 62, 63, 67-69, 70, 72, 74, 79, 80, 
         102, 147, 149, 153, 156, 182, 184, 187-188, 192, 
         193, 194-195, 197, 199, 209, 211, 212, 217, 232, 
         269
      and mental retardation, 181-195
      and suits for damages, 209, 269
   New Mexico, 70, 71, 78, 79, 80, 85-91, 97, 102, 131, 232
   Pacific, 50, 61, 62, 63, 69, 70, 71, 72, 78, 81, 82, 147, 
      156, 162, 182, 187, 211
   Siberia, 8, 50, 63, 81, 147, 162, 187
   Test-Ban Treaty, 27, 28-29, 30-31, 38, 39, 70, 73, 127, 
      180, 189, 194, 213
   underground, 34, 178, 181
Thompson, G. D. Carlyle, 101-102
Thornburgh, Governor (Pennsylvania), 207, 220 223, 224, 227, 
   266
Three Mile Island (see Reactors)
"Threshold" theory, 13-14, 23, 31, 32, 51, 100, 117-118, 123
Thyroid gland, 8, 9, 25-26, 29, 31, 33-34, 39, 100 102, 178, 
   179, 182, 189, 192, 202, 206, 210, 212-214, 221, 223, 228, 
   238, 239, 252, 254, 256, 257, 258-259, 264, 267
"Today" show (NBC-TV), 115-116, 117, 203, 249
Tokuhata, George K., 160, 167, 171-173, 233, 236, 255-256, 
   258, 260-261, 264-265, 267
Tompkins, Edythalena, 134-136
Tompkins, Paul C., 123, 134
Totter, John, 117
TRIGA reactors, 132-133
Trinity (Alamogordo), 85-91, 97, 102, 131, 134-135, 232
Tritium, 64, 121, 122
Troy (see Albany-Troy)

Union of Concerned Scientists, 177, 200
United Nations Report on Atomic Radiation (1962), 30, 95
United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of 
   Radiation, 29, 30
United Press International (UPI), 198, 267, 268
Uranium, 129, 177, 200 
   miners and cancer, 83, 129, 162, 191
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 10, 23, 27, 31, 33, 35, 
      39, 41, 63, 70, 87, 89, 99-100, 108, 113, 115-117, 
      121, 133, 135, 142, 152, 153, 154, 159, 166, 169, 175, 
      178, 181, 199, 210-214, 232, 249, 256, 269
   Division of Biology and Medicine, 28, 30, 38, 95, 104, 
      116, 117, 178-179
   Health and Safety Laboratory, 2, 4-5, 9, 25, 40, 43, 64, 
         90, 93-98, 107, 156, 158
      Quarterly Bulletin, 93
   and nuclear explosions, peaceful uses of, 23, 29
   radioactivity levels, standards, 3, 8, 30, 32, 33, 
      36-37, 39, 55, 93-95, 116, 117-118, 120, 122, 
      123-124, 134, 140-141, 150
   research and planning, 29-30
   and Shippingport, 154-159, 166-167, 173-174
   tests in Nevada, 2, 45, 33, 62, 63
U.S. Bureau of Radiological Health, 129, 141
U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC), 256, 258, 260, 263
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 134, 135, 151, 
   152, 157, 158, 160, 166, 221-223, 228-229, 232, 242, 
   245, 247, 255, 259, 268, 269
U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, 66, 70, 233, 
   248, 260
U.S. Office of Health Statistics Analysis, 74
U.S. Public Health Service, 22, 45, 100, 107, 108, 120, 123, 
      130, 131, 157, 188
   and lying about fallout, 211-212, 214 215
   and publication of fallout data, 63, 94
Utah instances, 29, 31, 39, 101-102, 178-179, 187, 188-191, 
   209, 210, 211-212

Vietnam war, 213, 217
Village Voice, The, 166

Wald, George, 199, 205, 206
Waltz Mills (see Reactors)
War, nuclear (see Nuclear)
Warren, Shields, 29-31
Warren, Stafford, 87
Washington Post, 34, 113, 210-212, 214, 217, 218, 230, 253
Washington Post-Los Angeles Times News Service, 243
Wastes, radioactive, 177
Water, contaminated, 3-5
   (See also Shippingport)
Watergate, 153, 166, 217
Weaver, Charles, 120
Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin,  90 91
Weiss, Edward S.;  Weiss study, 211-215
Wilson, Charles, 65
Wilson, Robert, 86
Windscale incident, 39
Wirtz, Willard; Wirtz commission, 183, 186, 191

X-rays, 19-20, 21, 22, 35-36, 50, 51, 67, 104, 109, 116, 219
   and "free radical" oxidation, 163-165
   and leukemia, 11-17, 20, 23-24, 30, 31-33, 35-36, 37-38, 
      43-44, 48, 104, 105-107, 124,202
Xenon, 89

Yamazaki, James N., 102-103, 104, 107
Yttrium, 127, 128, 189-190

Zimmer (see Reactors)

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