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From: fiddler@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Shielding Nukes
Keywords: not much help
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Date: 28 Jul 89 02:54:01 GMT
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From: fiddler@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)

In article <8633@cbnews.ATT.COM>, mcgrew@topaz.rutgers.edu (Charles) writes:
> 	ARF says: 
> 	Watches with illuminous dials are not reactors either but lots
> 	of women died very horrible deaths from painting the dials.
> Obviously
> these women were not told of the dangers (since the owners of the
> watch factory didn't give a damn what happened to them - they could
> just hire more), and so took no precautions.  

The factory owners could hardly be expected to warn their workers of
hazards that they didn't know about themselves.  These events occurred
before the hazards of radiation were well known, if at all.

Remember what happened to Roentgen and Curie.