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a change, I gather, in the surface of the islands.
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surface has really been completely sterilized, there has been
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aquatic life because the surface you said in places where the
Sure.
There were very definite changes,
There's some question as to whether sore
of the trees, the coconut trees and the other plants om the
northern plains of Rongelap do not show som Signs of genetic
effects,
There are som two-crcwned coccnut trees and this sort
of thing, but it's questionable as to whether this is really
a radiation effect or whether it's due goo the heredity of that
part of the atoll, and it hasn't been settled.
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WOLFE:
We had som guy who worked: up @ monograph
knife by cutting off the terminal bud; I don't know,
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have been caused by radiation, but I don't think that you can
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say that it was caused by radiation.
on those coconut trees.
CONARD:
WOLFE:
Fosberg?
No, not Fosberg.
don't krrow his nam.
place with 51 of these crowns and there hadn't been detonation
around that.
So this could come about maybe with a butcher
It might
CONARD:
Yes,
WARREN:
Weren't there some broad stens, flat stem,
in Eniwetok?
DONALDSON:
WARREN;
Yes.
That you were wondering about the neutron
effects?
DONALDSON:
Well, we have recorded over the years
a number of varients on the normil, particularly among the
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it's inherent we don't see them now.
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And this double crowning--he even got a coconut tree in one
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Whether this is induced somtic variation or whether
same place,
We've gone back to the
They have either died, were unable to survive,
Of course, we do see variations, but we at one time---
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