— ee hos ctrovlic whitiny thyroid, wil pe healthy acahd fyou are treated properly ane vou tollowthe doctor's advice, you should be healihy and strong like anvbody ele. You should be examined every year so the doctor can find out ifyou have thyroid disease. |i the doctors operate on your thyroid. they will give vou medicine. Tf you listen to the doctor and keep taking your medic lage, you will stay strong and beclthv. rs aa Since these same peopte have been there for some time, have the AEC found anv signs uf radiation sickness and if thes do. will chev he compensated? The people who were not expuscato the fallout in 193-4 und are nowliving en Rongelap ana Utrik way have gotten a little bit of radioactivity but only a vers, very small amount. They have not becn urt by rm - ation so there is no need to compensate them. Whydoesn't the AEC remove the radiation fromthe soil and plants? It is impossible to do so and since the radiation is so small, there 1s no reason to do this. Whydicn’t ihe U.S. explain to the people the dangersofthe fallout befcre the test? The people were not worned of the dangers of the fallout because thelikelihood that fallout would occur outside the restricted area was considered too remote ‘to jusufy warning the peuyre. The occurrence of fallout in an unrestricted area afer the Bravo Test was the fist accidental event of this kind to happen after a nuclear weapon test, a Vind FR Saxe ™» ——_ Rongelap (-v) UVartk Bomb Explesion b wo , som, . : : , t tye m, és ' ‘ , t . r . Te