* 241 HF DONALDSON: CONARD: Pe oO ow oar ££ a change, I gather, in the surface of the islands. aw surface has really been completely sterilized, there has been ww 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. 12 WOLFE: We had som guy who worked: up @ monograph knife by cutting off the terminal bud; I don't know, 20 have been caused by radiation, but I don't think that you can 21 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 39 plants, 31 it's inherent we don't see them now. 32 33 <I And this double crowning--he even got a coconut tree in one 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 at fuer 13 1s 15 16 17 18 19 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--- a 23 3 58