FIFTH CONGRESS OF MICRONESIA FIRST REGULAR SESSION, 1973 - SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 36 A SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION Expressing the sorrow and sympathy of the Congress of Micronesia to the family and friends of Lekoj Anjain for his untimely and unwarranted and irreplaceable loss. 1 2 States of America detonated a thermonuclear device, code-named Bravo, 3 on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands District; and 4 WHEREAS, this 15-megaton weapon of war caused an unprecedented 5 radioactive fallout over 7,000 square miles of the Pacific, showering 6 dangerous radioactive particles on the inhabited atolls of Ailinginae 7 Rongelap, Rongerik, and Utirik; and 8 WHEREAS, on the island of Rongelap at that time were 64 human 9 beings, including then Magistrate John Anjain and his one year old 10 11 male baby named Lekoj; and WHEREAS, since that time numerous cases of radiation-induced 12. growth retardation and thyroid disorders have been diagnosed and 13. =treated as a result of annual surveys by a medical team under contract 14 to the United States Atomic Energy Commission; and 15 Sih WHEREAS, on March 1, 1954, Joint Task Force Seven of the United WHEREAS, this same medical team last September upon examining 16 Lekoj Anjain found indications of a serious blood disorder and took 17 him to the United States for further examination; and 18 WHEREAS, Lekoj Anjain, nineteen years old, died on November 15, 19 1972, of pneumonia while undergoing treatment for acute myelogenous 20 leukemia at a hospital in the National Institute 21 Bethesda, Maryland; now, therefore, 22 of Health at BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Fifth Congress of Micronesia, 245