Dunham, Charles

The hearings provided additional information and commentary on the controversies of the previous few months. Charles Dunham, director of the AEC s Division of Biology and Medicine, reported that McCone s order that the AEC s classified records on fallout be reviewed had led to a complete or partial opening of "all the. . . documents that can be declassified." Dunham s statement included the most prominent example of the recently declassified material, a table showing the amount of energy yielded by fission in American, British, and Soviet bomb blasts between 1945 and 1958. Time magazine called that revelation the "biggest... 

Washington Post, 25 Apr. 1959, p. 1 New York Times, 28 Apr. 1959, p. 34 Science 129 (29 May 1959), 1473-1474 Charles L. Dunham to Dwight Ink, 28 Apr. 1959, File 2261 (Radiation and Fallout), McCone Office Files, AEC/DOE Laur-iston S. Taylor to Chet Holifield, 30 Apr. 1959, Box 43 (Radiation Effects), Chet Holifield Papers, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. 

L. E. Burney to Charles L. Dunham, 27 Oct. 1958, File 1634, Public HePublic Health Service, Rockville, Maryland. 

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