Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-21

strontium 80 from bomb testing
should be corrected"
Calls FaII-Out Insignificant
From genetic standpoint,
said DR.. Warren's telegram, "ra-
dioactive fall out including
strontium 80 has given only
small dose to date, as compared
with dose from acknowledgements
ring and hence unavoidable
background radiation.
IF weapons testing continues
at present rate for 80 years,
genetic dose would be- still in
significant and only fraction of
background.
ITO cause harmful effects,
dose would have to be increased
many times"
DR.. Warren added ITO per-
nit us to fall behind Russians
is disastrous; to wait for them
to catch up to us is stupid"
The same day, President Eli
senhower ordered a complete
history prepared on the atom
bomb. to be made public next
week.
Experts to COllabOrate
Presidential Secretary James
c. Hagerty said Mr. Eisenhower
made the decision in the belief
Mr.. Stevenson had made in
correct statements"
MIR. Hagerty said Acc Chair
man Lewis L. Strauss, Secretary
of Defense Wilson and Secre-
tary of State Dulles would draft
the report and that it would be
issued as a Government paper"
On Thursday, "a scientists at
Washington University in st.
Louis called for intensive scien-
tific study and public discussion"
on how continued H-bomb tests
might affect mankind.
The statement, which did not
list their university affiliation.
said the tests have created an
alarming" outlook.
Chancellor Ethan A. H. Shep-
ley of Washington University, on
learning of the statement, said
the university has a long ira
idition of not interfering with
the rights of its faculty men,
beers to express themselves as in
dividual citizens"
Further Discussion Favored
He said the university takes
no position ION any matter of
political controversy"
On Friday, 81 atomic energy
scientists at Brookhaven Ma
tional Laboratory. Upton. N. Y, 4
called for further discussion and
study on the possibility of dam
gerous contamination of the
earth by strontium 90.
They backed the banning of
H-bomb tests because of their
easy detection by other nations.
The scientists said:
The problem is not whether
strontium is dangerous-it is.
The question is whether the
amount of strontium 80 pro-
duced by tests is now or soon .
will be great enough to consti- 4
tute such hazard"
Senator Estes Kefauver, Dem
ocratic vice presidential nomi- \
nee, said scientists believe the
United States available H-bomb
capabilities "have a maximum
conclusive force sufficient to
blow the earth off its axis by I6
degrees"
Asked about the basis for this
statement, Senator Kefauver
said it was general informa-
ton
Doubts kefauver Point
He added that he is chairman
of a Senate Armed Forces sub
committee which has been in
veStigating the increasing force
.of the hydrogen bomb and has
acquired "soUe information" on
lit.
In Washington, the Acc de-
.clined comment on Senator Ke-
fauver's statement.
However. DR.. Ralph Lapp,
Washington atomic scientist not
connected with any Government
agency, commented that Il don't
see anything within the realm of
scientific fact that would sub
stantiate such a statement" as
Senator Kefauver made.
Thirty-seven faculty members
of City College of New York
IA of them scientists - adopted
on Thursday a resolution warm
ly indorsing" Mr.. Stevenson's
proposal.
They held there is no need
to build bigger bombs than that
Of the size which has already
been tested"
Among the signers were Prof.
Mark w. Zemansky. physics Co
partment chairman. who worked
on the atom bomb project.
Acc Chairman Strauss de-
clarsd on Friday that H-bomb
tests must be continued not only
to assure new weapons but to
provide data needed for civilian
survival under enemy attack.