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Scientist Asks A Canadian HAVE WE GONE TOO FAR WITH ATOM TESTS? | Maclean's


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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 Joachimsth ....

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