"On March 1, 1954, an experimental thermonuclear device was exploded at the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's Eniwetok Proving Grounds in the Marshall Islands, Following the detonation, unexpected changes in the wind structure deposited radioactive materials on the inhabited atolls and on ships of Joint Task Force #7,.." ---Statement of Charles L. Dunham, M.D., Director, Division of Blology and Medicine, AEC, 1956 1