INTRODUCTION 1
SOME PRELIMINARY IDEAS 2
A VIEW IN PERSPECTIVE, 1946-1963 8
THE ATOM IN ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES 20
ENVIRONMENTS—SINGULAR, YET PARTS OF A WHOLE 29
PROBLEMS AND PROJECTS 41
WHERE ARE WE NOW? 52
SUGGESTED REFERENCES 55
United States Atomic Energy Commission
Division of Technical Information
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 66-61322
1966
[Illustration: THE COVER
Scientists aboard a seagoing vessel prepare to study contents of a
plankton net as part of their research into radioactivity in an oceanic
environment.]
[Illustration: THE AUTHOR
NEAL O. HINES is an established writer and experienced academic
administrator with an unusual background in radiobiological surveys of
the Pacific Ocean atomic test sites. He holds degrees from Indiana and
Northwestern Universities. A former journalism teacher at the University
of California and Assistant to the President of the University of
Washington, Mr. Hines also worked for a number of years with the
Laboratory of Radiation Biology of the University of Washington, where
he served from 1961-1963 as administrative assistant and as Executive
Secretary of the Advisory Council on Nuclear Energy and Radiation for
the State of Washington. He was a member of the survey teams visiting
Bikini and Eniwetok in 1949 and 1956 and Christmas Island in 1962. His
“Bikini Report” (_Scientific Monthly_, February 1951) was one of the
earliest descriptions of radiobiological studies in the Pacific. He is
the author of _Proving Ground_ (University of Washington Press, 1962), a
detailed history of radiobiological studies in the Pacific from
1946-1961.]
ATOMS, NATURE, and MAN
Man-made Radioactivity in the Environment