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Show Rats Born in Defiance of Atomic Death respite deaths from radioactivity radioactiv-ity among animals aboard target ships in the Bikini atomic bomb test the animal population remains all s' stationary, reports from the Task Fnr?0"; animal SWp 0f Joi"t lask t orce 1, reveal To offset the deaths from radioactivity radio-activity a niter of white born aboard the USS Pennsylvania en hi (rWv, 'mVals were "naflect-ed "naflect-ed by the bomb. Originally there were 150 goats, 150 pigs and 3,10 white rats placed aboard 22 ship' .', of the target fleet. Deaths fro j radioactivity are continuing, accord-ing accord-ing to reports from the Burleson- Loss of life among the animals sl' ready has exceeded the 10 per ce0 ;' figure originally announced. , ' The little pig, found swimm '4 vigorously toward land after sinkisj ;? , of the Sakawa, is presumed to r ;! still alive. |