Articles Scientist Asks A Canadian HAVE WE GONE TOO FAR WITH ATOM TESTS? July 9 1955 NORMAN J. BERRILL Scientist Asks A Canadian HAVE WE GONE TOO FAR WITH ATOM TESTS? NORMAN J. BERRILL July 9 1955 Articles Scientist Asks A Canadian HAVE WE GONE TOO FAR WITH ATOM TESTS? July 9 1955 NORMAN J. BERRILL LIVING IN the Atomic Age means living in a world more radioactive than it used to be. This age started with the discovery of radioactive uranium and radium. At first, people who worked with these substances suffered from burns, anaemia and bone cancer. By the end of 1953, according to W. C. Hueper, of the National Cancer Institute of the United States, lung cancer had killed forty to fifty percent of the uranium miners at Joachimsthal in Czechoslovakia and from seventy-five to eighty percent of the miners in other radioactive mines at Schneeberg in southern Germany.