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dated September 24, 1958: H-bomb tests

American scientist and Nobel prize winner Dr. Linus Pauling, during a meeting organised by the campaign for nuclear disarmament, said in London on September 22 H-bomb tests so far would eventually result in the birth of 150,000 seriously defective children. Dr. Pauling, who returned specially from an international gathering of scientists in Vienna so that he could be in London, answered questions put by an audience of 1,500 to him and two other scientists.

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