ee i ee ee eet 1ST CONSTITUTION: 3>PECIAL SESSICN, 1979 ?ESGLUTION NO. 15 N.D.-1 A RESOLUTION Requesting the government of the United States of imerica to immediately conduct a radiciogical survey in the Marshall Islands. 1. WHEREAS, 43 nuclear explosions were ctonated by the United 2 States government at Ena@wetak Atoll between 1948 and 1958, all without 3. the knowledgeable consent of the Marshallese people who were or could 4 have been affected by the contamination produced by those explosions; and 5 WHEREAS, 26 nuclear explosions were detonated by the United 6 States government at Bikini Atoll between 1946 and 1958, all without the 7 knowledgeable consent of the Marshallese people who were or could have 8 been affected by the contamination produced by those explosions; and 9 WHEREAS, the effects of these nuclear explosions have been 10 disastrous, not only to the environments of Bikini and Enewetak, but 11 also to the people in the range of the effects of those explosions 12 beyond Bikini and Enewetak; and 13 WUIEREAS, recent radiological date, accumulated by the United 14 States government, indicates an extraordinarily high incidence of 15 apnmarently radiologically induced physical cisoniers among Marshallese 16 residents, outside what was originally thought to be the range of iL? contamination caused by the nuclear explosions at Bikini and Enewetak, 18 particularly, on Likiep Atoll and Wotje Atoll; ard 19 WHEREAS, Likiep Atoll and Wotje Atoll are approximately 300 20 miles fram the sites of the nuclear explosions, great concern ard 2]. anxiety has spread among the residents of those islands andi atolls in 22 the vicinity of the outer range of 300 miles fran the nuclear test 23. sites, concerning their ow health and well-being and that of their 24 progeny; arxl 25 WHEREAS, the nuclear tests ani the newly discovered apparent 26 effects of those tests constitute a serious departure fran the obligations 27 of the United States goverrment to the people of the Marshall Islands,