Bair:
I am not aware of any information, any scientific information that
would suggest that radiation has caused the problem.
sensitive to radiation.
The problem is probably
Plants are not very
one of the amount of
nutrient in the soil and to answer your question you will have to contact
somebody who is an expert in raising and growing plants.
Marshallese from Wotho:
Well, I just want to repeat that it was 1946 that
we began having bombs.
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(note a few words lost due to changing tape) ...and they all lead to
the conclusion that, that plants in general are very resistant to these
levels of radiation.
Robison:
It would take...
All the data from all the plants that have been
studied indicate that it takes hundreds and hundreds of times more
radiation than what we are talking about here to see an effect.
Marshallese:
So, I understand your reply, but then of course we still have
the obvious question, “what has caused this?”
want to know why it has been this way.
This is a condition and we
Since the time of the bomb tests
our arrowroot has not produced, and we really want to know what has caused
that, then.
Raj: Well,I am
sure we share that and would like to know too.
We do not
have any clue in all of the knowledge that we have about effects of
radiation on plants.
cause.
We just don’t have any indication that that is the
We too wonder what the cause might be.
Marshallese:
I wonder
why it is that the people came and tested bombs in
our area before knowing the effects that it would be, for our people and
our land.
Why didn’t you conduct some experiments
places before you did that?
in other, you know,
It seems rather presumptuous
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(Alice:
That’s