Part 8

In whatever case, the solutions lie in the direction of environmental knowledge.

Man, the human animal, will live in the environment he has the intelligence to understand and to preserve.

SUGGESTED REFERENCES

Basic

Sourcebook on Atomic Energy, Samuel Glasstone, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., Princeton, New Jersey, 1958, 641 pp., $4.40.

What is Ionizing Radiation?, Robert L. Platzman, Scientific American, 201: 74 (September 1959).

Weapons Testing and Fallout

The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, Samuel Glasstone (Ed.), U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1962 (revised edition), 730 pp., $3.00. Available from Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. 20402.

Fallout from Nuclear Weapons Tests, Hearings Before the Special Subcommittee on Radiation of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, 86th Congress, First Session, Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. 20402, 1959. Vol. I, 948 pp., $2.75; Vol. II, 1967 pp., $2.75; Vol. III, 2618 pp., $1.75. “Summary-Analysis of Hearings”, 42 pp., $0.15, is available only from the Office of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Congress of the United States, Washington, D. C. 20510.

Bombs at Bikini, W. A. Shurcliff, William H. Wise & Co., Inc., New York, 1947, 212 pp., $3.50. Out of print but available through libraries.

Biological Effects of Radiation

Health Implications of Fallout from Nuclear Weapons Testing Through 1961 (Report No. 3), Federal Radiation Council, Washington, D. C., May 1962, 10 pp., free.

Estimates and Evaluation of Fallout in the United States from Nuclear Weapons Testing Conducted Through 1962 (Report No. 4), Federal Radiation Council, Washington, D. C., May 1963, 41 pp., $0.30.

Report of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, General Assembly, Seventeenth Session, Supplement No. 16 (A/5216), United Nations, International Documents Service, Columbia University Press, New York, 1962, 146 pp., $5.00.

Radioactivity in the Environment

Environmental Radioactivity, Merril Eisenbud, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, 1963, 430 pp., $12.50.

Proving Ground: An Account of the Radiobiological Studies in the Pacific, 1946-1961, Neal O. Hines, University of Washington Press, Seattle, Washington, 1962, 366 pp., $6.75.

Radioecology, Proceedings of the First National Symposium on Radioecology Held at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, September 10-15, 1961, Vincent Schultz and Alfred W. Klement, Jr. (Eds.), published jointly by the Reinhold Publishing Corporation, New York, and the American Institute of Biological

Footnotes

The biosphere is the living world, the sum of all living, interacting organisms.

Symbiosis is a condition in which two organisms or communities of organisms live together in close association, either on a basis of mutual benefit or of benefit to one only, with or without harm to the other.

Ionizing radiation is radiation that can cause damage to biological tissues.

Isotopes are variant forms of atoms of the same element.

Nuclides is a term used to describe all the forms of all the atoms. Radionuclides are radioactive nuclides.

An ecosystem is a natural community, taken as a whole, including all biological and environmental factors.

Ecologists are scientists concerned with the interrelations of organisms and their environments.

A thermonuclear device is an explosive, such as a hydrogen bomb, based on a fusion reaction. In other atomic weapons the energy is derived from nuclear fission.

The living organisms.