Students requesting the seminar were deeply troubled, partly by the cancer scare associated with the 30 years of radioactive decay by some 26
millicuries in buried tracer substance, and partly by the ugly inferences of genocidal motivations toward the Inupiat on the part of the AEC and its accomplices.
Developed in South Africa primarily as a combat sight, the Armson is "powered" by 160
millicuries of tritium and as such is radioactive.