of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography who testified before the U.S. Committee: "This area of 1000 miles around Bikini was carefully investigated by Japanese oceanographers and biologists 4 months after the Castle test. They got figures like this in the water: 23,000, 90,000, 79,000, 26,000 disintegrations per minute per liter of seawater. . . . This is at a distance of about 300 miles." (natural radiation, gamma plus beta, for seawater is 500 dpm) After the Event: Medical Aspects In. discussing the medical aspects of this subject area, the Committee would like to state its observation concerning the dual nature of the examinations and the reports of those examinations. It appears obvious to the Committee that the examinations, while beneficial to the affected Marshallese in terms of both general health and in terms of treatment for radiation-induced disease, also provide a considerable body of scientific knowledge about the effects of a fallout field on human beings which has no direct benefit for the persons affected. By saying "no direct benefit" the Committee is not excluding the known advantages of record-keeping such as that done in normal case histories for patients, What is meant here is that the reports as they are written and presented are of primary interest to scientists and doctors should such an event as happened in 1954 occur again in the future. In short, the reports themselves are of value to the AEC and other such agencies; they are of no value to the Marshallese. Tendency to Minimize Like the reports of the AEC concerning the removal of the Marshallese and the radioactivity in the ocean, it appears that consistently the reports have tended to minimize effects, or other aspects of the exposure; i.e., dosages seem “too small" to have any effect, the size of the group is “too small" for Me ois