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Biology and the Bomb: Some "Hidden" Perils
`Espinasse, Paul A. | June 25, 1955 issue

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This article focuses on biological effects of thermonuclear explosions on living world from the point of view of genetics researchers. Some attentions, given to the biological effects of thermo-nuclear explosions, has been concentrated upon the genetic consequences likely to show themselves in a population exposed to the possibly abnormal amounts of radiation which might well follow such an explosion in some areas. Effects are supposed to be not only direct but it can be partially in the form of mutations. The relation between those explosions and genetic structures are claimed to be very close as per various radiological examination results.

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NUCLEAR explosions; NUCLEAR weapons -- Testing; RADIATION -- Toxicology; MUTATION (Biology); GENETICS -- Research; RADIOLOGY
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