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r ee ee a a EN re __ “, |. The question is whether we could not scoept the offer which, if 1 remember rightly, already has been made by the Soviet Union to ebandon these tests. “So far we have known sitll et taneake, hydrogen bomb explosions. are an ; they register all over the world... would be willing to take small risk involved in not having an inspection system. * the ee Sr oe ee “, . . It requires the experience the Japanese have had to make people feel strongly about doing something—and doing it now—to end nuclear b tests, which may be harming us far more then we know.” Dr. Linus Pauling Robel Prize Winner “Ax international agreement to stop the tests would the spread of these weapons and would be a first step towar general disarmament. Inspection is simple. No large bomb can be detonated without detection. ... “The bomb tests that have been made so far will ultimately have caused the deaths of about one million in the world. These one million persons will have Ried 10 or 30 or 30 years earlier than’ their life span because the radiation has produced bone cancer, Jeukemia or some other disease. “These bomb tests will also cause the birth of 200,000 seri- ously defective children in the next generation of human beings, children with serious mental deficiency or serious physical defects. If the Christmas Island tests are carried out and one - bomb, with five megatons equivalent of fission, is expl it will cause the deaths from cancer and other diseases of 100,000 persons now in the world and will increase by 20,000 the number of seriously defective children born in the next generation. 17