t @9lie Site prepared by the St. Louis Committee for Nuclear Informa- tion reaches the following conclusions: . 1) Analysis of the available evidence shows that children residing in the states bordering the Nevada Test Site have, as a result of fallout from nuclear tests at that site, probably been exposed to medically significant radiation. v7 2) These exposures were avoidable, for on the basis of radiation monitoring carried out by the AEC during the teat programs, the probability of exposure should have been evident in time to warn the population to take simple precautionary steps. 3) Monitoring procedures in the Nevada Test Site regions have been inadequate in that they do not take into account the importance of internal exposure to radioactivity entering the body in fallout-contaminated food. Direct and prompt measurement of iodine 131 in local milk, which is the nost effective method of estimating the hazard from this isotope have not been done, or, if done, have not been reported. Moreover, indirect but nevertheless useful estimates of the iodine 131 hazard, which can be determined from the available gross gamma and beta radioactivity measurements have not been made heretofore. 4) Past assurances of the safety to nearby popplations of the Nevada test prograzcs are not substantiated by the present analysis of available data. Assurances that “the hazard has been successfully confined to the controlled areas