WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1991 11:23 A.M. YEAR 4, DAY 321
Vio present to continue with our JOURNAL. I realize that the morning had to be devoted to Hatonn’s work so we start behind in time allowance and I realize that you, Dharma, must make a trip on legal matters and to check in with Charles in the hospital, in the city. Therefore, we shall write for only about an hour and then allow you to get out of here around 1:00. In that way, we will have time to scribe a bit more this evening. Perhaps the messages on the “stamps” you are to have done, can be structured prior to going into the city for it will be well over a hundred degrees in the entire area this day and that kind of heat is debilitating and causes sluggishness, so I prefer you keep rambling to a minimum so that we can be refreshed enough for clear writing when we sit next. Thank you.
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES FINDINGS AND OPINIONS
To simplify the writing at this time, we will just deal with findings and opinions as outlayed by the scientist. This will mostly be basic “copy” work. We will only write about an hour so let us move right smartly along, please. Keep in mind that this meeting was held before 1957 so the situation is worse, compounded, and invalid in some instances. Worse, however, are the absolute lies and errors in perception in the entire presentation. Read carefully and then ponder your plight most painstakingly and it will become obvious that you are in far more serious trouble than you had any way to evaluate.
The problems of radiation fall naturally into two main classes: (1) the effects on human beings; (2) the various ways in which radiation can reach human beings through the environment.
The inheritance mechanism is by far the most sensitive to radiation of any biological system.
Any radiation which reaches the reproductive cells causes mutations (changes in the material governing heredity) that are passed on to succeeding generations.
Human gene mutations which produce observable effects are believed to be universally harmful.
Everyone is subjected to the natural background radiation which causes an unavoidable quantity of so-called spontaneous mutations. Anything that adds radiation to this naturally occurring background rate causes further mutations, and is genetically harmful.
There is no minimum amount of radiation which must be exceeded before mutations occur. Any amount, however small, that reaches the reproductive cells can cause a correspondingly small number of mutations. The more radiation, the more mutations.
The harm is cumulative. The genetic damage done by radiation builds up as the radiation is received, and depends on the total accumulated gonad dose received by people from their own conception to the conception of their last child.
So far as individuals are concerned, not all mutant genes or combinations of mutant genes are equally harmful. A few may cause very serious handicaps, many others may produce much smaller harm, or even no apparent damage.
But from the point of view of the total and eventual damage to the entire population, every mutation causes roughly the same amount of harm. This is because mutant genes can only disappear when the inheritance line in which they are carried dies out. In cases of severe and obvious damage this may happen in the first generation; in other cases it may require hundreds of generations.
Thus, for the general population, and in the long run, a little radiation to a lot of people is as harmful as a lot of radiation to a few, since the total number of mutant genes can be the same in the two cases.
It is difficult to arrive at a figure showing how much genetic harm radiation can do. One measure is the amount of radiation, above the natural background, which would produce as many mutations again as occur spontaneously. It is estimated that this amounts to 30 to 80 Roentgens.
[The Roentgen is a unit of radiation. To give an idea of its value, the average dental X-ray delivers five roentgens to the patient’s jaw, but only five thousandths of a roentgen of stray radiation to more remote parts of the body such as the gonads.]
It is also estimated that a dose of 10 Roentgens to every person in the United States would cause something on the order of 5,000,000 mutant genes, which would then be a part of the population’s inheritance pool. This figure is subject to considerable uncertainty.
At present the United States population is exposed to radiation from (1) the natural background, (2) medical and dental X-rays, (3) fall-out from atomic weapons testing. The 30-year dose to the gonads received by the average person from each of these sources is estimated as follows:
1. Background--about 4.3 roentgens.
2. X-rays and fluoroscopy--about 3 roentgens.
3. Weapons tests--if continued at the rate of the past five years (1950-1955 with no changes in quantity) would give a probable 30-year dose of about 0.1 roentgens. This figure may be off by a factor of five, that is, the possible range is from 0.02 to 0.5 roentgens. If tests were conducted at the rate of the two most active years (1953 and 1955) the 30-year dose would be about twice as great as that just stated. (Keep in mind, Chelas, that these are figures KEPT TOTALLY UNDERSTATED BY THE ELITE CARTEL LEADER, ROCKEFELLER).
At present test explosions (1956) of atomic weapons are the only significant source of radiation in the general environment, above the natural background.
Meteorologists have found no evidence that atomic explosions have changed the weather or climate. Nor do they believe that continued weapon tests, at the same rate and in the same areas as in the past, would have such an effect.
Radiation from explosions passes into the atmosphere and much of it eventually returns to the ground as “fall-out”.
Fall-out divides into three classes: (1) close-in--material that comes down within a few hundred miles of the explosion and within 10 to 20 hours, (2) intermediate--material that descends in a few weeks after the explosion, (3) delayed--material that remains in the air for months or years.
Close-in fall-out from test explosions affects only restricted, uninhabited regions.
Intermediate fall-out would descend very slowly if it were pulled down only by gravity. It is mostly washed out of the air by rain and snow. It spreads over large parts of the earth, but its effect over a small area may be accentuated if there is heavy precipitation while the radioactive cloud is overhead.
Delayed fall-out is stored for long periods in the stratosphere. Meteorologists know very little about the interchange of air between the stratosphere and lower layers, so they cannot predict exactly how long the material will stay up, nor where it is likely to descend.
National Academy of Sciences Genetics Committee states:
The report of the Genetics Committee of the National Academy of Science was unanimous and blunt: “Any radiation is genetically undesirable, since any radiation induces harmful mutations (changes).”
This complex chemical compound known as a gene cannot repair itself, and to date we know of no way of repairing it.
The injured gene will handicap some descendant, even though it may skip many generations before it does so. It may cause physical and mental handicaps to a whole line, and it will keep trying until at last it kills off the line.
Thus, the geneticists say cold-bloodedly, from the standpoint of the human race it would be better to have a few thousand humans severely radiated than to have whole populations subjected to minor radiations.
If, as medical evidence overwhelmingly shows, man-made radiation is not good for the health of human beings, the logical questions are: Where and how might you be exposed? What can you do to protect yourself and your family?
You could be exposed through:
1. Ordinary medical X-ray.
2. Eating food, drinking water or milk or breathing air that has been contaminated by fall-out from the explosion of atomic weapons tested by the United States, England and Russia.
3. Food or water contaminated by radioactive wastes from an atomic installation.
Dr. W.F. Libby says: Last May 2, Dr. W.F. Libby, Commissioner, United States Atomic Energy Commission, presented to the National Academy of Sciences what is probably the most authoritative public report to date on “Radioactive Strontium Fall-out”.
Samples of radioactive strontium, Dr. Libby said, were detected in the snow at Admiral Byrd Bay in the Antarctic; in the waters of the Danube, the Mississippi, the Seine and the Moselle Rivers; in alfalfa in the fields of Wisconsin and Iowa, and in soil in various sections of the country.
Dr. Libby concluded his report by observing that the average content of radioactive strontium is increasing in milk supplies all over the world, and therefore more and more human beings are putting more and more radioactive strontium into their bodies.
Since growing children concentrate calcium, they are likely to absorb more of this dangerous relative of calcium into their bones than adults. And any material incorporated into their bodies during childhood will have a longer time to act.
An atomic laboratory worker dies from atomic rays:
Philadelphia (AP)--Exposure to atomic radiation in a government laboratory between 8 and 10 years ago has taken the life of a Philadelphia physician, the city medical examiner said.
Medical Examiner Joseph W. Spelman issued his finding after an inquest into the death last July 24 of Dr. Kenneth A. Koerber, 50, of Philadelphia. Dr. Koerber had worked in the Atomic Energy Commission’s Brookhaven National Laboratories, Upton, N. Y., between 1946 and 1948. He inspected laboratories to protect workers from radiation.
“We presume,” Dr. Spelman said, “that Dr. Koerber somehow got a dose of atomic radiation which now, ten years later, caused his death. We have conclusively proved that he was subject to atomic radiation or to the inhalation or to the eating of atomic compounds. At the present time his bones contain 1,000 times the maximum safe concentration of radiation.”
We quote now from James Poling, In Better Homes and Gardens, May, 1957. The following is far from comforting, if not totally alarming.
“An H-bomb explosion at our Bikini test site, March 1st, 1954, blew a scientific concept, as well as an island, into smithereens. Fallout had previously been regarded as a hazard confined to the immediate vicinity of an atomic explosion. But a recording instrument at Rongelap, 100 miles to the east of Bikini, revealed that this bomb had sprayed alarming quantities of radioactive dust over that atoll. And we learned for the first time that fallout from a multi-megaton bomb was lethal over an area of several thousand square miles. Now we know that naked horror of the bomb. It poses as a potential threat to all mankind.”
The Miami Herald prints the following:
DETROIT ATOM PLANT CALLED DANGEROUS: “Washington--In a memo suppressed by Atomic Energy Chairman Lewis Strauss, atomic scientists have warned sternly that the “fast breeder” power reactor he approved for construction outside Detroit may “risk the health and safety of the public”.
Last November, a similar but smaller experimental reactor at Arco, Idaho, melted down into a hot radioactive heap that couldn’t be touched for six months. Puzzled scientists still haven’t found the cause.
Yet Strauss, ignoring the urgent advice of his own safety experts, okayed construction of the same design atomic power plant in Detroit’s populous back yard.” [Still feeling fine and that you can trust your “big boys”?]
The eminent scientist authority upon radioactivity, Dr. Ralph Lapp, upholds our contention that the upper stratosphere will not send in its full bill for our payment until the late seventies. There is no question but what the stratosphere is accumulating death rays for destruction of earth’s oxygen at an increasing rate. The freely expressed belief that “the pull of gravity” will bring the fall-out to earth is costly to human survival. A small percentage of the higher potential goes toward Earth, but the LARGER PERCENTAGE IS OF A POTENTIAL WHICH IS LIGHTER THAN THE EARTH PRESSURES. These seek the upper levels and the stratospheres. It is possible that enough has already collected to take toll of millions of lives, or cause millions of defective births, even if we stopped the use of radioactivity now. We print Dr. Lapp’s warning in full, as issued by The Daily Oklahoman of July 5, 1956 [45 years ago day after tomorrow]--and other papers.
Dharma, we are out of time for this writing. Let us just leave it right here and pick up right here when we next sit. This is serious, chelas, it is so much worse than you can imagine that WE know not how to best bring it to your urgent attention. I believe, however, that you probably are beginning to see what was meant by Soltec regarding the radiation from the stratosphere onto Earth within the next year or so. It is going to collect to a point where there will be widespread and massive fall-out as the accumulations build beyond saturation point.
With all the information available back half a century and brought public while other information was deliberately kept from you--you must see that you are in urgent circumstance for the planet is all but a “hot” ball of ready-to-detonate elements. You can continue to hide or you can come out of your hole and ask God to attend WITH YOU and meet His Laws and requirements and perhaps we can set this about reversal--if you do not--you can count your days very quickly indeed.
Germain to clear until we next sit to pen. Thank you, Dharma. I salute you and I am honored to serve with you. Salu.
THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1991 10:34 A.M. YEAR 4, DAY 322
INDEPENDENCE DAY FOR AMERICA?
Germain present in communion of the moment. I can not express the love and caring which I hold for your great nation. It is the primary purpose of my journey upon the waves of experience at this sequence. There was such hope for the birthing of a new concept of life and government of the people, by the people and for the people--that a new nation would be birthed where Man could live in freedom and pursue livelihood protected in that freedom and seek his happiness; that he might worship as he pleases, speak out in freedom, find truth and justice within the law and courts, write in freedom, find truth and freedom in the press and live as MEN--EQUAL ONE TO ANOTHER. May you see, and find your way back. Salu.
Let us continue the JOURNAL, for until we finish the outlay of the problems which are uppermost in your opposition to life--we cannot “fix” anything. It does not do good to place a splint on the arm if it be the leg which is broken. Your enemies are invisible--from the rays of radiation to the elusive “invisible government”. I am “honored” to be allowed to bring forth this Word--I am not joyous over the assignment. I do, however, hold knowledge which can bring great change within the boundaries of that which I speak. So, allow us to move right ahead with all possible speed. I salute you beloved brethren who receive of us for we are in great attachment and need of one another. May our work be blessed in Truth with the seal of God upon our word.
SCIENTIST SAYS H-TESTS NEAR DANGER LEVEL
When we had to take leave on the yesterday we were speaking of Dr. Ralph Lapp and I had just quoted an article from a press release. The last sentence needs information repeating: “Lapp said the NAS report, issued June 13, 1956, was ‘misleading’ when it indicated that the testing of nuclear weapons could be increased 25 to 30 times above the 1950-55 average without endangering the world’s health.”
Dear ones, that testing has been increased by hundreds of times that level.
Now, there is a second angle: “He said in an interview that the NAS limit was based only on ‘external’ radiation. He declared the safe maximum is far lower for ‘internal ingestion’ of radioactive particles carried into the human system by air, food and water.
“The point I would emphasize,” the atomic scientist said, “is that all of us already have measurable quantities of this bomb-generated radioactive material in our system.
“Although the quantities are not as yet dangerous in the cases where measurements have been taken, we now have enough information to determine definitely when the maximum safe level of radioactivity will be reached.”
Lapp, who has repeatedly disclosed information about the dangers of radiation, which were later verified by the atomic energy commission, said he believes that three super-bombs probably equal to about 10 million tons of TNT each had been set off in the current Pacific test series before Tuesday.
The Japanese central meteorological station announced evidence of a fourth super-explosion described as “possibly” an H-bomb Tuesday morning. If the total for the series is equal to 40 million tons of TNT, this would double the average annual rate for tests conducted from 1950 through 1955.
Lapp’s warning concerned the effects of radioactive strontium, an element created when uranium atoms split. The element is chemically similar to calcium and tends to cause cancer and other ailments by concentrating in the human skeleton.
“Making a much more conservative assumption that test rates would slowly accelerate and would double by 1970”, he said, “I concluded that by 1962 there will be enough radioactive strontium committed to the stratosphere to produce a 100 times ‘maximum permissible amount’ in every person on the planet.
“Because of a hold-up of the invisible particles in the upper air--the particles fall to earth at a rate of about 10 percent a year--this radioactive strontium would not show up in full amount in the human body until after the late 1970’s.
“However, by 1962 the die would have been cast irrevocably.”
Instead of a slow acceleration, Lapp said, “The upward arc of bomb testing is proceeding out of control.” With Russia, the U.S. and Britain conducting H-bomb experiments, he declared, the total exploded by 1960 could exceed the equivalent of one billion tons of TNT.
Lapp has been conducting a running battle against the AEC’s secret policy which prevents announcements concerning most of the tests and, even at the public detonation May 21, withheld the explosion data necessary to calculate the exact amount of radiation.
“Education about the biological effects of nuclear radiation is an absolute prerequisite if the human race is to survive,” Lapp said, adding:
“I think advertisement of the probable effects of war-borne radioactivity might also prove a valuable deterrent to the unlimited use of nuclear weapons.”
Collier’s was the first prominent magazine to vividly portray the tragic dangers of radioactivity. In around 1955 it published an article about the dangers of “ATOMIC GARBAGE” by Robert De Roos, which should have awakened every human to this dreadful way of exterminating the human race. I herein print copious extracts from his article--for you hear it, apparently, better from two-legged humanoids. This article was the first one ever to have been published to that date which discloses the true facts about plutonium as being the most deadly of the killer metals. Its greater importance as a killer lies in the fact that it loses only half of its radioactivity in 23,000 years. Its primal effect upon the human body is in its direct attack upon the bone marrow where human blood corpuscles are formed. Together with strontium, these super calciums could cause more defective skeletal birth and agonizing deaths than any plague heretofore known to have hurt mankind.
When you read these extracts have this thought in mind, that radioactivity has hardly begun as yet. This fuel is not intended for temporary use, but for permanent use. Think ahead, therefore, for a hundred years. If conditions are as they now are, after but a few experimental years, what would they be in a hundred years? We believe that there will not be one man on earth in a century or so even if so few as fifty reactors, such as Hanford and Oak Ridge, are erected. (This last portion was written in 1957!)
It cannot be said that the danger to human life is not fully realized, for the cost of the waste storage tanks in 1956 was $278,000 each, and the Hanford plant had already purchased $27,000,000 worth of these tanks. The fallacy of this tank plan was that the tanks themselves would disintegrate in a century or so at best, or become as radioactive as their contents in some twenty years, thus fully releasing these deadly rays for many thousands of years of destruction. Many of these tanks have been thrown into the deep sea. Your present generation is already reaping the first harvests of that devastation. Your next generation will pay dearly for what you have done to them. Is that not a dreadful thought?
The next idea for waste disposal was to lock it up in glazed bricks. Radioactive metals will destroy bricks as readily as they destroy granite and other rocky formations. It is a slow process but future generations will be the sufferers from it. There is no possible safe way of getting rid of radioactive waste beyond a few years. The deserts of the world offered the only chance, then and possibly now. By plowing very deep furrows for hundreds of miles, and as distributing all waste and free metals in very small amounts over vast (thousands of miles) areas in MANY deserts, it might be possible to save more of your atmospheric damage. Otherwise, you will have no atmosphere in time.
So much time has elapsed since this very information came forth and you slept on, that the problem is so massive that transmutation is all but ruled out as a possibility.
Let us reprint from the article:
Far out in the desert wasteland of eastern Washington, at the Atomic Energy Commission’s gigantic Hanford plutonium works, radioactive elements surge in vast underground tanks--a pent-up sea of useless energy which is a constant worry to the scientists who unwillingly created it. This deadly broth of fission products is the garbage of the atomic age.
And these highly active liquid wastes are only part of the story. Potentially dangerous atomic garbage comes in all forms: liquids, solids, gases and vapors. The ordinary defenses of man are powerless against all of them. Radioactivity is invisible and silent; it cannot be touched or tasted or smelled. And everything a radioactive element comes in contact with becomes contaminate: a wrench used in atomic installations, steel drums, a bit of waste-paper from a laboratory. Carcasses of experimental animals may contain small amounts of radioactivity; even the laundry water used to wash contaminated garments gets polluted.
The story of radioactive wastes is just being understood by the public. For years it was cloaked in the secrecy which surrounds all dealings with the atom. But the dilemma posed by the wastes has been with us ever since the first self-sustaining atomic pile was activated under the bleachers at Stagg Field in Chicago in 1942, for when the physicists pulled the switch on the atomic age, they also created something else: the world’s first radioactive rubbish--the inevitable, lethal products of nuclear fission.
Ten years of production, which has seen the world-shaking atom bomb pale before the even more shattering hydrogen bomb, has left the AEC with an accumulation of millions of gallons of liquid radioactive garbage and tons of contaminated solid objects. And there’s more every day.
The problem facing the AEC--and a problem which it confidently asserts is being handled with great efficiency and success--is how to keep these new materials out of the environment--out of the air we breathe, out of our drinking water and food supplies. The garbage must be kept tightly under control because unbelievably small--often invisible--amounts can contaminate large areas.
What makes the problem so serious is the fact that this radio-active garbage is building up at increasing rates--thousands of gallons every day.
And it’s only the beginning. The atomic-energy industry, big as it is, is only an infant now, and today’s rubbish can be handled by storing it in remote sections of the country. But under the provisions of new Congressional legislation, private manufacturers will be encouraged to develop the commercial uses of fission material. So, in the not-too-distant future, disposal of wastes will become a neighborhood matter.
Some of the best engineering brains in the country are grappling with this serious question, but unless they come up with workable solutions, constantly swelling stores of waste may hamper full development of such peacetime atomic projects as generation of electric power, heating of whole communities from central atomic “furnaces”, propulsion of ships and planes, and thousands of undreamed-of new ideas.
At Hanford, where the atomic refuse represents the greatest nonmilitary concentration of radioactive elements ever known to man, the scientists rely on CC to dispose of highly active wastes. The radiation level of the hot stuff is fantastically high: the tanks the trash is buried in contain several million times the radio-activity of the world’s entire commercial supply of radium.
Just one element sloughed off in making plutonium--strontium 90--is over 60 times as radioactive as radium. How dangerous is that? An engineer at the General Electric Company, which operates Hanford for the AEC, figured out what would happen in the hypothetical event that you threw the element into the Columbia River--which no one would be likely to do. After covering a sheet of paper with computations, he came up with this answer: “It would take over eight hours of the full flow of the Columbia--fifty-three billion gallons--to dilute one gram of pure strontium 90 to the point where the water would be safe enough to drink according to the AEC’s permissible limits. Or, putting it another way, if you dripped three grams of the element in the Columbia every day, the water of the sixth-largest river in the U.S. would be unfit to drink.” (A gram is 1/28 of an ounce.)
In addition to strontium 90, the chain reaction spews out about 40 other radioactive waste elements with half-lives ranging from seconds to millions of years. A half-life is the time it takes half of the atoms in a radioactive element to become disintegrated.
Storage of the really hot stuff is very expensive. A recent contract for six 1,000,000-gallon tanks was let for $1,724,000. Hanford has $27,000,000 worth of tanks with a storage capacity of 67,000,000 gallons.
No one claims the tanks provide the solution to atomic rubbish disposal. “We are uncertain about the effects of these radioactive wastes,” comments General Electric’s Dr. Herbert M. Parker, director of the radiological sciences department at Hanford. “We are starting conservatively while trying to get answers which may modify the present program.”
David E. Shaw, the AEC manager at Hanford, adds: “Meanwhile we keep building the tanks”--at $287,000 each.
Meanwhile, most of the rubbish is stored. The only highly radioactive wastes being thrown away are those now sent out to sea to be dumped in very deep water beyond the continental shelf. A federally sponsored committee hopes this system may provide the ultimate solution to the waste-disposal problem. On the other hand, oceanographers, sanitary engineers, marine biologists and marine geologists are already concerned about what will happen when large amounts of radioactivity are thrown into the oceans.
“The sea has the same topography as the land,” says Dr. Abel Wolman, of the Johns Hopkins University, a consultant to the AEC and one of the top sanitary engineers in the United States. “Big as it is, it won’t accommodate everything we want to throw into it.”
How winds, waves and currents will affect the dispersion or concentration of radioactive materials is under very serious study. Dr. Wolman says: “One thing that makes me a little reluctant about using the ocean is the memory of the New York garbage mess--when New York dumped its trash far at sea only to have it drift back to the Jersey beaches. And what about international control of dumping at sea?”
At Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in the vast silences of the Appalachian Mountains, stand the tremendous gaseous diffusion plants where U235 is made by the Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Company, a division of Union Carbide & Carbon Corporation.
Oak Ridge, a 60,000-acre site, also contains the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which produces most of the country’s radioactive isotopes for experimental work.
HOW OAK RIDGE GETS RID OF ITS REFUSE
(AND REMEMBER, THIS WAS IN 1956)
Although its waste problem does not compare with Hanford’s in volume, Oak Ridge still pours 50,000 gallons of highly active refuse into its underground tanks every week. Another 5,000,000 gallons of less active rubbish also must be disposed of.
Because Oak Ridge is located in a remote region, the disposal of less active wastes is but a minor worry; but getting rid of the highly radioactive rubbish is harder. Teams of scientists, headed by Dr. Z.K. Morgan, director of the health physics division of the National Laboratory, believe they have an answer for final disposal of the dangerous, long-lived refuse at Oak Ridge, if not in all other parts of the country.
Two huge pits were bulldozed out of a hillside above White Oak Lake and large amounts of very hot wastes were poured in. The theory was that the radioactive fission products would be trapped by the fine particles of shale underlying the pits; any small amounts of hot stuff that seeped through would be diluted in the waters of the lake.
Test wells were drilled to detect movement of the rubbish through the ground. At the end of two months, only one waste element had penetrated through to one well.
McCalls Magazine for January of 1957, had this front cover headline for a story by P. Lorentz, “RADIOACTIVITY IS POISONING YOUR CHILDREN”. We now quote parts of his story which is indicative of the fear which is felt throughout the world of this threat to the human race. Again I ask you to harken up for this is also over 35 years ago!
QUOTE:
It is no secret today that a hydrogen war, no matter who starts it or who is attacked, will mean the destruction of most of the human race. One of our own high-ranking generals has stated publicly that a hydrogen attack by our forces might take the lives of three or four hundred million people--enemy or ally--“depending on the direction of the winds!”
Here is a substance you can neither see, feel, hear, taste nor smell. You may be exposed to it unwittingly; you may inhale it, or absorb it by drinking polluted water or by eating contaminated food. You may not feel any immediate ill effects, yet some materials remain radioactive for years in the body, operating as so many infinitesimal but dangerous X-ray machines.
1. No amount of man-made radiation, external or internal, is “good” for healthy, living things. Any amount of exposure does some harm, however slight.
2. Radiation is cumulative and irreversible.
To put it very unscientifically, you have just so much radiation tolerance, and every time you are subjected to X-rays or any other kind of man-made radiation, you have drawn against your total allowance. Some people have more tolerance than others, but, ideally, the quantity of total body radiation to which a human being is exposed during his lifetime should not be greater than that to which he is subjected from the sun, stars and planets and radiation arising from the minerals in the earth’s surface.
3. There is no such thing as a peaceful use of atomic energy, if by “peaceful” you mean “harmless.”
Even the by-products of a peaceful nuclear reactor could be used in one form or another for military purposes. Radiations inside atomic plants are dangerous. Air escaping from the plants can become contaminated. If water is used to shield or to cool the plant, it can become contaminated. The waste materials--the by-products of nuclear fission--are radioactive, some materials remaining highly dangerous for centuries.
4. The more people exposed to radiation, the more damage to generations yet unborn.
For years, many groups of scientists in many parts of the world have issued appeals for a cessation of atomic explosions, on the grounds that the fall-out of radioactive materials gradually is poisoning the earth. Because of the cloud of secrecy surrounding the military facts of atomic energy and because some of these scientific groups are politically suspect, many of these appeals have been reported in the daily press as political rather than scientific discussions.
A careful study of the official reports of our own authorities, however, should convince anyone that sooner or later the atomic powers will have to stop releasing poisonous materials in the atmosphere. If they do not stop, and stop completely, they will have achieved mutual annihilation just as surely as though they had engaged in actual, all-out hydrogen warfare.
What is more, even if all bomb tests were stopped tomorrow, it is estimated that the main part of the poisonous materials that already have been released into the upper atmosphere will not have fallen on us until 1970, and there will be a continuation of this noxious rain long after that.
The following is quoted from the Christian Science Monitor--as written by its Science Editor, Robert C. Cowen:
A special study group of leading American natural scientists has concluded that there is no radiation danger to human life from the present rate of atomic weapons tests. This cuts the technical ground from under the repeated demands that such tests be stopped because of the radioactive materials they release into the atmosphere.
But, at the same time, these experts warn that the full world-wide development of peaceful uses for the atom could produce more of a radiation hazard in the form of radioactive wastes than would an all-out atomic war. In fact, this “hot” waste disposal problem is growing so quickly today that their report urges its immediate and urgent consideration at the international level to determine and set up adequate safeguards.
This report by responsible natural scientists should help to bring more balanced thinking than has been evidenced in the past to bear on the vexing question of whether or not the human race is endangering its own future by releasing atomic radiations into its environment.
The report was based on extensive studies by 145 natural scientists conducted under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences and financed by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. The studies were set up specifically to help resolve the world-wide controversy over radiation hazards and to provide some useful data in a field that is beset with ignorance and uncertainties.”
The following is from the Washington Daily News, Monday, September 10, 1956, by Gene Shumate:
WE ARE BREATHING ATOM-AGE AIR HERE
(It’s Radioactive Most of the Time)
The air over Washington has been radioactive more than 70 percent of the time since 1951, a Naval Research Laboratory Report said today.
In 1953, it said, Washingtonians breathed pre-atomic air for only 60 days.
“We haven’t had normal, clean air since before the atomic age--or since we started testing atomic weapons at Yucca Flats, Nev.,” Dr. Herbert Friedman of the laboratory’s Electron Optics Branch told The News.
Dr. Friedman is one of the authors of the report.
It said the navy has studied the air in a series of areas since 1949--Chicago, Washington, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Memphis, Puerto Rico, Panama, seven scattered Pacific isles, North Africa, and Alaska.
Dr. Friedman said the average dosage present in the air here is only two-tenths of a Roentgen--far from being immediately dangerous--“but we’re not sure what the accumulative effect on man will be.”
“It takes about 500 to 600 roentgens to kill a man outright”, he said.
“There’s a lot we don’t know as yet about what effect breathing even slightly radioactive air over extended periods will have on us,” Dr. Friedman said. “We do know that certain isotopes up there are bad actors.”
Yes, chelas, of all the cover-ups and secret actions perpetrated against mankind and life-forms of all earth beings--THIS IS IT! THIS IS THE FINAL EPITOME OF DESTRUCTION VIA THE SECRET ELITE. You have reached the point at which there is probably no return--it is time you turn your attention to the possibilities of there being a God of Love who sends His Hosts to collect you of His flock. Denying the facts herein, considering that these are conservative projections of your own species’ experts and authorities almost half century past--where are you, beloved Man of Shan? Does not everything else in your lives pale by comparison? AIDS, precious ones, is basically a simple created lifeform and acts as a deadly radioactive power plant--intended to kill!
Part of the thrust to stop our writing is to “somehow” prevent panic among men. Panic? If you are not in a panic--you certainly DO NOT UNDERSTAND YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES!
Why don’t we alien life-forms just drop in and “fix” things for you? Well, for one very good reason among many, we really don’t want to get nuked! We understand the problem and don’t really have any intent of committing radioactive atomic suicide. Ours will likely be in service of getting as many off your “hot rock” as will turn unto God within the next few years of your counting time. It does not generally bode well for the planet, however. If you stopped your foolish suicide mission today, you have such an incredible build-up that total reversal is highly improbable at any rate or effort expended. Ability to sustain some life-forms on the planet is possible but that, too, is getting to be a most dim probability in the long millenniums of perceived “future”. Radioactivity is already seeping into EVERY aquifer on your globe. You have no means to counter or neutralize it.
Oh, God should fix it for you? WHY??
The greatest and most powerful expression of fear from the use of radioactivity which had yet been made by anyone among the higher intellectuals, up to 1957, is the following world-broadcast appeal by Dr. Albert Schweitzer to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, asking that “public opinion demand an end to nuclear tests.”
The New York Times, April 24, 1957.
SCHWEITZER URGES WORLD OPINION TO DEMAND END OF NUCLEAR TESTS: Nobel Winner’s Pleas Broadcast in 50 Lands Says Alternative is Catastrophe for Mankind.
OSLO, Norway, April 23--Dr. Albert Schweitzer has appealed to the world to end nuclear tests.
The appeal of the 82-year-old missionary, surgeon, philosopher and musician, addressed to the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee, was broadcast today in about fifty countries, including most of those in Europe. It was broadcast in Swahili from Nairobi and Japanese stations carried it.
Dr. Schweitzer’s message was read in Norwegian by Unnar Jahn, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, who in 1952 bestowed the Nobel Peace Prize on Dr. Schweitzer. Translations of the text were read in English, German, French and Russian on Norwegian short-wave stations.
The impact of the warning was heightened for Norwegian listeners because the broadcast followed by fifteen minutes a report of a recent radioactive rain over Norway caused by Soviet nuclear explosions.
The initiative for the broadcast came from Dr. Schweitzer himself. The Norwegian state radio planned to send a reporter to his hospital in Lambarene, French Equatorial Africa, where Dr. Schweitzer lives and works, to make a recording of the speech.
Dr. Schweitzer said he was too weak to read the appeal himself. It was, therefore, decided that the message would be read in translation and Dr. Schweitzer expressed the hope that it would reach the whole world.
Dr. Schweitzer said his aim was to awaken public opinion before it was too late. He warned that the human race was heading for a catastrophe if nuclear explosions were continued. This catastrophe must be prevented, he said.
“There can be no question of doing anything else, if only for the reason that we cannot take the responsibility for the consequences it might have for our descendants; they are threatened by the greatest and most terrific danger,” Dr. Schweitzer said.
He emphasized that to fail to consider the importance of radio-active elements created by man and their consequences would be a folly “for which humanity would have to pay a terrible price.” “We are committing this folly in thoughtlessness,” he said.
Dr. Schweitzer asked why the United States, the Soviet Union and Britain did not come to agreement to stop the tests. He believed the reason was that there was no public opinion asking for it. Japan, he added, is the only exception.
He accused “official and unofficial sources” of evading the problem when they assured that the increase in radioactivity of the air did not exceed an amount the human body could tolerate without harm.
“Even if we are not directly affected by the radioactive material in the air we are indirectly affected through that which has fallen down, is falling down and will fall down,” he declared.
He also stressed that not only was the health of the present population threatened by internal radiation but also that of future generations.
“The fact is that the cells of the reproductive organs are particularly vulnerable to radiation,” he said.
Dr. Schweitzer concluded his warning by appealing to public opinion in all nations to demand an agreement to stop the tests. “The end of further experiments with atomic bombs would be like the early sunrays of hope which suffering humanity is longing for,” he said.
SCHWEITZER’S APPEAL TO END NUCLEAR TESTS
OSLO, Norway, April 23 (Reuters)--Following is the translation of excerpts from a letter issued by Dr. Albert Schweitzer through the Norwegian Nobel Committee, asking that public opinion demand an end to nuclear tests:
Since March 1, 1954, hydrogen bombs have been tested, by the Americans at the Pacific island of Bikini in the Marshall Group and by the Russians in Siberia.
After the explosion of a hydrogen bomb...something remained in the air, namely an incalculable number of radioactive particles emitting radioactive rays. This was also the case with the uranium bombs which were dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima and those with which subsequent tests were made. However, because these bombs had smaller size and less effect compared with the hydrogen bombs, one hardly paid any attention to this fact.
Since radioactive rays of sufficient amount and strength have harmful effects on the human body, one started discussing if the radiation resulting from the explosions that had already taken place represented a danger which would increase with new explosions.
In the course of the three and a half years that have passed since then, representatives of the physical and medical sciences have been studying the problem. The material collected, although far from complete, allows us to draw the conclusion that radiation resulting from the explosions which have already taken place represents a danger to the human race, a danger not to be underrated, and that further explosions of atomic bombs will increase this danger to an alarming extent.
I raise my voice, together with those of others who have lately felt it their duty to act, in speaking and writing, as warners of the danger. My age and the sympathy that I have gained for myself through advocating the idea of reverence for life permit me to hope that my appeal may contribute to the preparing of the way for the insight so urgently needed.
There are two kinds of atom bombs, uranium bombs and hydrogen bombs. To these two bombs has recently been added the cobalt bomb, a king of the super-atom bombs. The effect of this bomb is estimated to be many times stronger than that of hydrogen bombs having been made till now.
The explosion of an atom bomb creates an inconceivably large number of exceedingly small particles of radioactive elements.
Of these elements, some exist for hours, some for weeks, or months, or years, or millions of years, undergoing continuous decay. They float in the higher strata of air as clouds of radioactive dust. The heavy particles fall down first. The lighter ones will stay in the air for a longer time or come down with the rain and the snow. How long it will take before everything carried up in the air by the explosions which have taken place till now has disappeared, no one can say with any certainty. According to some estimates, this will be the case not earlier than thirty or forty years from now.
What we can state with certainty, however, is that the radio-active clouds will constantly be carried by the winds around the globe and that some of the dust, by its own weight, or by being brought down by rain, snow, mist and dew, little by little, will fall down on the hard surface of the earth, into the rivers and into the oceans.
Particularly dangerous are the elements combining long life with a relatively strong efficiency radiation. Among them strontium-90 takes the first place. It is present in very large amounts in the radioactive dust. Cobalt-60 must also be mentioned as particularly dangerous.
The radioactivity in the air, increased through these elements, will not harm us from the outside, not being strong enough to penetrate the skin. But the danger which has to be stressed above all the others is the one which arises from our drinking radioactive water and our eating radioactive food as a consequence of the increased radioactivity in the air.
Following the explosions on Bikini and Siberia rain falling over Japan has, from time to time, been so radioactive that the water from it cannot be drunk. And not only there: reports of radioactive rainfall are coming from all parts of the world where analyses have recently been made. In several places, the water has proved to be so radioactive that it was unfit for drinking.
Wherever radioactive rainwater is found the soil is also radioactive--and in a higher degree. The soil is more radioactive, not only by the downpour, but also from radioactive dust falling on it. And with the soil the vegetation will also have become radioactive.
The radioactive elements deposited in the soil pass into the plants where they are stored. This is of importance, for as a result of this process it may be the case that we are threatened by a considerable amount of radioactive elements.
The radioactive elements deposited in the soil pass into the plants where they are stored. This is of importance, for as a result of this process it may be the case that we are threatened by a considerable amount of radioactive elements.
The radioactive elements in grass, when eaten by animals whose meat is used for food, will be absorbed and stored in our bodies.
What this storing of radioactive material implies is clearly demonstrated by the observations made when, at one occasion, the radioactivity of the Columbia in North America was analyzed. The radioactivity was caused by the atomic plants at Hanford, which produce atomic energy for industrial purposes, and which empty their waste water into the river.
Dharma, we must break here because very shortly the computer is set to “eat” the document. It is longer than we like for a chapter at any rate because of “overload”.
You petition me to assure you that “things are better now because there is no longer much above-ground testing”. No, I cannot tell you that for it is far worse now. You have myriads of countries all over the globe now using power plants and doing underground testing--constantly. Daily there is testing. The underworld is alive with nuclear radiation--now spread around the entire periphery of the globe. As these volcanos erupt and the fissures form and break at the fault lines and the massive heat buildup surfaces from the hot lava beneath the testing areas--deadly material will spew forth as the deadly toxic material from all volcanic activity in addition to more and more of it being radioactive.
You have effectively allowed the murder by suicide and nuclear holocaust--an entire planet and planet life-forms. There may be no such thing as “time” nor “space” BUT THERE IS SEQUENCE OF EVENTS AND MOTION!
So, I know, John will lead the pack in “we have to do something” and “what do we do now?” What is different today than when you were told of this heinous death plot? Why do you come to us NOW wanting instant cure for your self-inflicted diseases? Why should God do anything? What have you done to prove unto God that you deserve anything? What would you change if all were made “right”?
What can you do to save your species? About all I see as a sure bet--is to get off the place while you still can--ah, but you can’t, can you? You have been lied to about the transportation system also, have you not? Are you still in great enamorment and captivation of those leaders who have set this plague upon you? So be it.
God has told you exactly how it will be and what you as a people must do to change this thing come upon you--and what have you done? There are not enough yellow ribbons in the entire of the world to mourn this day, my chelas--not in all the entirety of the world. You sit squarely atop the time-bomb awaiting final detonation. OH YES, INDEED, INDEED, THERE ARE MANY ONES WHO WILL SACRIFICE AND DESTROY YOUR ENTIRE PLANET TO GAIN THEIR OWN PERCEIVED AMBITIONS--MANY!
I TRULY SUGGEST YOU PONDER THIS INFORMATION--FOR THE FACTS ARE LAID OUT BY ONES ON YOUR OWN PLACEMENT AND PERHAPS THEY CAN CAUSE YOU TO HEAR FOR YOU DENY OUR PRESENCE. HOW LONG WILL YOU DENY OUR PRESENCE WHEN THE MASSES BEGIN TO DIE IN DISFIGUREMENT AND HORRIBLE CATASTROPHE? I WONDER!
“AIDS” WAS DELIBERATELY CREATED TO COVER THE REAL HEINOUS DEMISE COMING DOWN UPON YOU AND WHERE DO YOU GO FROM HERE? DO YOU MOVE TO REBURY YOUR HEADS IN THE SAND-POT? DOOM AND GLOOM HOSTS? SO BE IT! SALU.
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응답: MURDER BY ATOMIC SUICIDE
