World-Wide Fallout From Nuclear Weapons Pt. 3 of 3

World-Wide Fallout From Nuclear Weapons Pt. 3 of 3 continued... Lecturer asks how little an amount of radiation will cause how many mutations. Says much is speculation as to what effect background radiation has; and then says that Cesium being a tiny percentage is even less likely. 10:30:?? Carbon 14 as a nuclear explosion result & its danger.10:39:39 POV of car around curves on highway in dry mountain area. 10:39:53 Lecturer on allowable dosages of C14. 10:41:09 Strontium 90, Sr90 received from plants & animals. Animation re bones in body & causing cancer but little long-term study has happened. Says everyone is guessing on effect. Statistics show much more leukemia from background levels than from fallout from atomic testing. 10:45:47 “If this should happen it would be a tragic thing for those injured no matter how small a number. Whether these statistically very few casualties can be justified is a personal value judgement outside the scope of this report. Each citizen must make his or her own evaluation. There are those few who loudly maintain there is no actual threat to the free world at all, certainly none that cannot justify either nuclear testing or nuclear armament. The opposite viewpoint holds that the development of our nuclear power has been an absolutely necessary protection against Communist hostility & nuclear threat. In this view the fallout casualties, if any, will be seen as those of unidentified soldiers in the service of humanity; unknown soldiers in a war which has not struck & which our nuclear power may indeed prevent from ever striking. Beyond this it should be remembered that while fallout may conceivable kill or injure some hundreds of persons in the coming generations we suffer vastly greater losses every year from causes which seem to excite very little public interest or reaction. Automobile exhausts & oil furnaces continuously contaminate our air w/ lead & w/ benzopyrene in large quantities, both of them known for 30 years to be powerful cancer-causing agents. There were over 6,000 deaths in a single smog attack in England a few years ago. There was a killing smog in Donora Pennsylvania. There are many cities w/ poisoned air; we are suffering virtual epidemics of lung cancer & heart disease, almost certainly man-made. For some curious psychological reason none of these, nor many other large & substantial hazards seem to provoke the blind public alarm that tends to flair up at the mere mention of the word radiation. Propaganda; Safety; Dangers; Operation Castle; Fear; Nuclear Testing; Biological Science; Military Weapons; NOTE: Donora smog attack 30-31Oct48, Fluoride fumes from US Steel zinc smelting plant blanketed the town & killed at least 20. No Universal Newsreel exists.