Low-dose study finds no effects

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48. "Dirty bombs" are "Weapons of Mass Distraction"

Read what University of California - Berkeley Physics Professor Richard Muller had to say about "dirty bombs" in an article he wrote for MIT's "Technology Review":

http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/13651/

I remember attending a seminar by Nobel Laurete Dr. Rosalyn Yallow, who received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for her work with biology and radiation. She told us of a time she was testifying before a Senate hearing on the "atomic veterans".

She asked the Senators if the following was fair. Any serviceman who receives an equal dose of radiation in the course of serving their country, deserves equal compensation.

That is she asked if the amount of compensation should be proportional to the radiation dose. The Senators all agreed that would only be fair.

She said then you have a problem. For every dollar you give to one of the "atomic veterans", you need to give a thousand dollars to an airman that served in World War II. The airmen of World War II spent so much time in their airplanes at altitude, that the additional radiation dose that they got was thousands of times greater than the radiation does received by those servicemen that attended nuclear tests in Nevada.

At that point, Senator Kennedy looked puzzled and asked her, "What's the matter, can't we fix the planes?"

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