Memo from To: p>. Lp Hamilton

JOSHUA LEDERBERG Brookhaven Natl Lab

UN Comm Effects of Atomic Radiation
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How may I most expeditiously get the text
of this short report?

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’ To the Editor: vot
* Under the’ headline “U.N. Panel °
' Warns of the Hazards of Peaceful Uses
of Nuclear Power” your correspondent
from the U.N. stated (Oct. 4) that, ac-
: cording to the Report to the General
Assembly. of the Scientific Committee -
' on the: Effects of Atomic Radiation, ;
. “the peaceful uses of nuclear power -
have outstripped bomb tests as a -
: threat to world ie through radia-
. tion.” -.
Since the relevant four paragraphs

of this two-page report merely record .

the committee’s decision to consider in NOV 9 1970
detail its future reviews of environ-

mental contamination that from peace- -
. ful uses of nuclear energy and radioac-

tive isotopes in addition to that from

atmospheric nuclear explosions, it is °

difficult to read in the text an explicit
’ or-implicit warning of the hazard of
. peaceful uses of nuclear power or even
a suggestion that the peaceful uses of

nuclear power have outstripped bomb

tests as a threat to world health.

, L. D. HAMILTON |
_-, Setauket, L. 1, Oct. 6, 1970.