Re: [Know_Nukes] Mangano urges new studies of TMI health effects

[RuthWeiner@AOL.COM]

Gosh I  hate to get into one of these again, but...



The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is not peer-reviewed in the sense of 

HEALTH PHYSICS or SCIENCE; i.e., articles are not sent anonymously to anonymous 

peer reviewers, etc.  However, the Bulletin was founded by the late Eugene 

Rabinowitsch (sp?) who was one of the chief chemists on the Manhattan Project and 

who, as it happens, was my biophysics professor at the U. of Illinois, and 

tried to get me to switch my major to biophysics.  We also belonged to the same 

Go-playing group, and got to know Dr. Rabinowitsch socially somewhat.  He went 

on after the Manhattan Project to write an excellent treatise on 

photosynthesis.  



Dr. Rabinowirsch was a first-rate scientist and was concerned about the 

proliferation of nuclear weapons.  As long as he was part of the editorial board of 

the Bulletin, the articles were reviewed for scientific accuracy ( or 

inaccuracy).  I cannot speak for what the Bulletin does now, and I have been 

disappointed in the couple of issues I have seen in recent years.They appeared to be 

adopting the strident anti-nuclear tone we are all to familiar with.  



Ruth







Ruth F. Weiner, Ph. D.

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