CROP OF FREAKS FROM ATOMIC BOMBING
Dr. Haldane Says Effects May Last 10,000 Years NEW YORK, January 2. The British biologist, Professor Haldane, said the first generation • of survivors of the atcm bombing of Hiroshima might include a crop of freaks and that the peak of birth abnormalities would come after five or 10 generations. Professor Haldane, in discussing the part natural radiatio.n played in germ cell changes affecting man's hereditary, said such human effects as those from the atom bomb might keep tuming up for another 10,000 years.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5292, 3 January 1947, Page 6
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89CROP OF FREAKS FROM ATOMIC BOMBING Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5292, 3 January 1947, Page 6
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