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Then, to conclude on an indeterminate note : `` Nevertheless, if fallout increased substantially, or remained high for a long time, it would become far more important as a potential health hazard in this country and throughout the world ''. | remained | {
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Then, to conclude on an indeterminate note : `` Nevertheless, if fallout increased substantially, or remained high for a long time, it would become far more important as a potential health hazard in this country and throughout the world ''. | become | {
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Dr. Linus Pauling, a Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, has been less ambiguous, whether you choose to agree with him or not. | been | {
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Dr. Linus Pauling, a Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, has been less ambiguous, whether you choose to agree with him or not. | choose | {
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Dr. Linus Pauling, a Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, has been less ambiguous, whether you choose to agree with him or not. | agree | {
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After declaring, in an article last month in Frontier magazine, that the Russian testing `` carries with it the possibility of the most tragic consequences of any action in the history of the world '', he gave this estimate of the biologic and genetic consequences if the new Soviet shots totaled 200 megatons : | carries | {
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After declaring, in an article last month in Frontier magazine, that the Russian testing `` carries with it the possibility of the most tragic consequences of any action in the history of the world '', he gave this estimate of the biologic and genetic consequences if the new Soviet shots totaled 200 megatons : | gave | {
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After declaring, in an article last month in Frontier magazine, that the Russian testing `` carries with it the possibility of the most tragic consequences of any action in the history of the world '', he gave this estimate of the biologic and genetic consequences if the new Soviet shots totaled 200 megatons : | totaled | {
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The damage to human germ plasm would be such that in the next few generations 160000 children around the world would be born with gross physical or mental defects. | be | {
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The damage to human germ plasm would be such that in the next few generations 160000 children around the world would be born with gross physical or mental defects. | be born | {
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Long-lived carbon-14 from the fusion process would cause four million embryonic, neonatal or childhood deaths and stillbirths over the next 20 generations, and between 200000 and one million human beings now living would have their lives cut short by radiation-produced diseases such as leukemia. | cause | {
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Long-lived carbon-14 from the fusion process would cause four million embryonic, neonatal or childhood deaths and stillbirths over the next 20 generations, and between 200000 and one million human beings now living would have their lives cut short by radiation-produced diseases such as leukemia. | have | {
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Long-lived carbon-14 from the fusion process would cause four million embryonic, neonatal or childhood deaths and stillbirths over the next 20 generations, and between 200000 and one million human beings now living would have their lives cut short by radiation-produced diseases such as leukemia. | cut short | {
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Most of these would be in the Northern Hemisphere, where the fallout is concentrating. | be | {
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Most of these would be in the Northern Hemisphere, where the fallout is concentrating. | concentrating | {
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Pauling 's estimate of 200 megatons yield from the present series of Russian tests will probably turn out to be too high, but a total of 100 megatons is a distinct possibility. | turn out | {
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Pauling 's estimate of 200 megatons yield from the present series of Russian tests will probably turn out to be too high, but a total of 100 megatons is a distinct possibility. | be | {
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Pauling 's estimate of 200 megatons yield from the present series of Russian tests will probably turn out to be too high, but a total of 100 megatons is a distinct possibility. | is | {
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The lack of scientific unanimity on the effects of radiation is due in part to insufficient data covering large population groups, from which agreed-on generalizations could be drawn. | is due | {
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The lack of scientific unanimity on the effects of radiation is due in part to insufficient data covering large population groups, from which agreed-on generalizations could be drawn. | covering | {
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The lack of scientific unanimity on the effects of radiation is due in part to insufficient data covering large population groups, from which agreed-on generalizations could be drawn. | drawn | {
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But more than one conscientious researcher has been inhibited from completely frank discussion of the available evidence by the less excusable fact that fallout has been made a political issue as well as a scientific problem. | inhibited | {
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But more than one conscientious researcher has been inhibited from completely frank discussion of the available evidence by the less excusable fact that fallout has been made a political issue as well as a scientific problem. | made | {
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Its dangerous effects have been downgraded to the public by some who believe national security requires further testing. | downgraded | {
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Its dangerous effects have been downgraded to the public by some who believe national security requires further testing. | believe | {
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Its dangerous effects have been downgraded to the public by some who believe national security requires further testing. | requires | {
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An illustration of this attitude is found in John A. McCone 's letter to Dr. Thomas Lauritsen, reported in a note elsewhere in this issue of The New Republic. | found | {
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An illustration of this attitude is found in John A. McCone 's letter to Dr. Thomas Lauritsen, reported in a note elsewhere in this issue of The New Republic. | reported | {
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To this day the Atomic Energy Commission shies away from discussing the health aspects of fallout. | shies away from | {
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To this day the Atomic Energy Commission shies away from discussing the health aspects of fallout. | discussing | {
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A recent study on radiation exposure by the AEC 's division of biology and medicine stated : `` The question of the biological effect of [ radiation ] doses is not considered '' herein. | stated | {
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A recent study on radiation exposure by the AEC 's division of biology and medicine stated : `` The question of the biological effect of [ radiation ] doses is not considered '' herein. | considered | {
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Of course, the AEC is in a bind now. | is | {
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If it comes down too hard on the potential dangers of fallout, it will box the President on resuming atmospheric tests. | comes down | {
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If it comes down too hard on the potential dangers of fallout, it will box the President on resuming atmospheric tests. | resuming | {
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So the Commission 's announcements of the new Soviet shots have been confined to one or two bleak sentences, with the fission yield usually left vague. | confined | {
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So the Commission 's announcements of the new Soviet shots have been confined to one or two bleak sentences, with the fission yield usually left vague. | left | {
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Now, of course, that the Russians are the nuclear villains, radiation is a nastier word than it was in the mid-1950s, when the US was testing in the atmosphere. | are | {
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The prevailing official attitude then seemed to be that fallout, if not exactly good for you, might not be much worse than a bad cold. | seemed | {
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The prevailing official attitude then seemed to be that fallout, if not exactly good for you, might not be much worse than a bad cold. | be | {
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Things are n't that simple anymore. | are | {
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Some government scientists say privately that the figure probably is closer to 80 megatons, and that the full 50 - megaton bomb that Khrushchev mentioned may still be detonated. | mentioned | {
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If the new Soviet series has followed the general pattern of previous Russian tests, the shots were roughly half fission and half fusion, meaning a fission yield of 30 to 40 megatons thus far. | followed | {
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To this must be added the 90 to 92 megatons of fission yield produced between the dawn of the atomic age in 1945 and the informal three-power test moratorium that began in November, 1958. | added | {
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He had two interests in life : the pleasures of the table and driving. | had | {
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The journey back he made along the coast road, traveling hell-for-leather, every lantern of the tallyho ablaze. | traveling | {
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His patronage on this stretch was made up largely of San Franciscans - regulars, most of them, and trenchermen like himself. | made up | {
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They did not complain at the inhuman hour of starting ( seven in the morning ), nor of the tariff, which was reasonable since it covered everything but the tobacco. | complain | {
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Gazing too long at the scenery could be tiring, so halts were contrived between meals. | Gazing | {
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Then the Chinese hostler, who rode with Vernon on the box, would break open a hamper and produce filets of smoked bass or sturgeon, sandwiches, pickled eggs, and a rum sangaree to be heated over a spirit lamp. | rode | {
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