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APPENDIX THE ZAPPING OF AMERICA: Microwaves, Their Deadly Risk and the Cover-Up. Paul Brodeur, Norton, $12.95. In 1971, a team of University of Alabama researchers studying birth defect statistics among white children in tuo Alabama counties came across a curious fact: from July 1969 to November 1970, 17 children had been born with clubfoot; statistically, there should have been no more than four, Further investigation yielded the astonishing intelligence that all 17 cases had been delivered in the Army hospital at Fort Rucker. And that wasn't the end; their fathers were all helicopper pilots. Dr. Peter B. Peacock, head of the research team and chairman of the University of Alabama's Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, suspected that the causative factor was microwave radiation. Fort Rucker supported a heavy concentration of radar. Helicopter pilots fly at low altitudes where the microwave emissions are heaviest. But plans to conduct a thorough study were thwarted: The Army chose not to cooperate. Microwave usage on a large scale began during World War II with radar, which found the distance to targets by bouncing microwaves off them and timing the interval Since then, between the outgoing and returning signals. a phenomenal growth has taken place in devices that generate microwaves, some in small, some in powerful doses. A smattering of the microwave rollcall would include almost 1,000 television stations, 15,000 diathermy machines, several million miarowave ovens, powerful broadcasting satellites, police radar guns Industrial uses and your automatic garage door opener. of microwave run the gamut from pre-cooking bacon to drying tobacco,. For almost as long as we have been using microwaves, evidence has been accumulating that they pose biological dangers such as cataracts, career and genetic damage, In 1971, an advisory council to the President warned that power levels in American cities, industries, and homes may already be biologically significant and the population at risk "may well be the entire population." But, strangely, there has been virtually no systematic investigation in the United States of the effect of microwave radiation on people who have been exposed to it. The Soviet Union has conducted such studies and ite precautions are far move broad than ours; for axample, microupe ovens sold in the United States are permitted by law to leak up to five milliwatts per square centimeter-500 times more than the Russian standard allown.
