Fallout from Weapons Testing

[Andy Hull <hull@mail.sep.bnl.gov>]

In an 8/3 letter to the New York Times, Joseph A. Mongano, a consultant to
the Radiation and Public Health Project (E.J. Sternglass and Jay Gould) wrote:
"The National Cancer Institute's revelation that fallout from atomic bomb
testing in Nevada from 1951-62 contained greater amounts of thyroid
cancer-causing iodine than had previously been believed omits a key observation.
 For years, independent scientist warned that iodine from Nevada tests had
produced excess thyroid cancers. Medical journals published articles
estimating 80 to 1,800 additional cases in children (June 1959), as well as
a 300 percent increase in thyroid cancer among young Utah females after
testing began (October 1967). All cancer institute analyses of rising cancer
rates have ignored bomb test fallout as a potential cause.

The real credit for this 'new' knowledge should go to these independent
researchers, who candidly demonstrated effects of a hazardous substance in
the face of decades of silence from a government body mandated to protect
the public's health."

Does anyone out there know anything about his references, which are not
indicated in his letter?

Andy Hull
S&EP-BNL
Upton, N.Y. 11973
Ph. 516=344-4210
Fax:516-3434-3105