Toe Volume V, Number 6 February 22,974 That Pires hiyerogan Death ANOTHER MICRONESIAN FAME NIE. I had lobar pneumonia, and Johr Glick had hooke: me up to the familiar I.V. Two bottles of antibiotics drippec alternately into my veins. This time, I had the privilege: bed beside the window, and the bed near the door was oc cupied by a muscular young man with brown skin, curl black hair, and a huge grin. His name was odd—Lekoj Anjain. He was, it turned ow from the Marshall Islands. He had been a one-year-ol baby in 1954, wher we Americans tested our first delive: able hydrogen bomb on Bikini, one of the Marshalls. As it happened, ] kuew a good deal about the Buikii bomb. With the help of Dr. Ralph Lapp, an atomic scier Further remembrances tist who used to act as mv mentor ia such matters, T ha donea Jot of reporting on it. So had brether Joe. As a resul Joe and I werethe first to describe, in our joint column, tt phenomenonof nuclear fallout. The Bikiai borab was much more powerful than Edwar Teller and the other scientists in charge had anticipate: on the great moundsof earth below the explosion point. The eart 2. re Bh: CLAIM TO The next day I was back in the same room I had occupiec more than a year before, when I had first been admitted t Lekoj Anjain incident by Stewart Alsop Moreover, it had an unanticipated effect. It churned u was turned into light dust by the force of the explosio This heavily irradiated dust followed the wind patterns w til it fell out of the skies. Sume of it fell on the Luck Dragon, a Japanese trawler more than ninety miles fro the explosion point. The meinbers of the crew all suffere [CONTINUED PAGE NINE |