Obscenity and Pornography

The Assessment of Radiation Exposures in Native American Communities from Nuclear Weapons Testing in Nevada

“…When asked to provide dose estimates to representative members of Native American communities, DOE gave estimates for a "shepherd lifestyle" as representative of an outdoor lifestyle. (10) The DOE estimates indicate that external whole body exposures were significant, on the order of 10 mSv (1 Rem), for residents of many Native American communities such as Duckwater, Ely, and Moapa, and external exposures at some locations off-site in Nevada and Utah were substantially greater. (3,10) Internal dose estimates for most organs were smaller; however, doses to the thyroid were as much as .1-.2 Sv (10-20 Rem) for adults, and in excess of 1 Sv (100 REM) for small children.…”

“…(10) The DOE estimates indicate that external whole body exposures were significant, on the order of 10 mSv (1 Rem), for residents of many Native American communities such as Duckwater, Ely, and Moapa, and external exposures at some locations off-site in Nevada and Utah were substantially greater. (3,10) Internal dose estimates for most organs were smaller; however, doses to the thyroid were as much as .1-.2 Sv (10-20 Rem) for adults, and in excess of 1 Sv (100 REM) for small children. (3,10)4 There is substantial uncertainty in these estimates as well as considerable interindividual variability in the doses received by individuals residing in the same location at the same times.…”

“…9 On the basis of information from community members on rabbit hunting and on a set of measurements of radio-iodine in vegetation and in rabbit thyroids collected by DOE after the Sedan nuclear test in July 1962, we have constructed an illustrative model for radiation doses to the thyroid from eating jackrabbits. 10 The model has three components: (1) a vegetation submodel, which describes variations in the amount of radio-iodine in vegetation and its disappearance with time; (2) a rabbit thyroid submodel, which relates the amount of radio-iodine in the rabbit thyroid to the amounts of radio-iodine in vegetation; and (3) a human dose model, which relates the dose to the human thyroid to the amount of radio-iodine in the rabbit thyroid. The third submodel uses Dunning and Schwart's ingestion dose coefficients (17) to estimate human doses.…”

Cinema’s milieux: governing the picture show in the United States during the Progressive era

“…70 When police action was taken in 1907 against the 'mind-poisoning' Unwritten Law in Minneapolis, it did not lead to the establishment of an official censorship as in Chicago. 71 Cinema per se was not identified as a problem, and existing obscenity laws applicable to any medium was deemed a sufficient basis for police action against offending images.…”