snaseamamememen WEAPONS TESTING 1SaS 1966 continued Brookhaven scientists take U.S. to consume under laboratory conditions. After several weeks' study, they report: ‘The intake of strontium 90 over a seven day period vas twenry times higher chan normal and that of cesium 137, sixty times higher than normal." 1968 APRIL Kwajalein: The Kwajalein Test Site is renamed the "Kwajalein Missile Range" ‘KMR). fense Nuclear Agency and the Air Force sponsor the Pacific Cratering Experiments (PACE) on Enewetak. More than % Rongelap: Marshallese food items from Rongelap (pandanus fruit and coconuts) to the 220 tons of explosives are brought to Enewetak for this series of tests which will simulate nuclear bomb blasts. DECEMBER Rongelap: A Japanese medical survey team, including a thyroid specialist, comes to the Marshall Islands at the request of Marshallese leaders to conduct an “independent” medical survey. The American Trust Territory administration refuses the medical 1969 OCTOBER The Congress of Micronesia, representing all six Micronesian cistricts, Segins negotiations with the United States to end the U.N. Trusteesnip in favor of a new political status. “S 1970 Xwajalein: Two additional racars (ALCOR and ALTAIR) become operational as part of the Hiernan Re-Entrv “€asurements Site (KREMS) on Roi Namur island, combining with the TRADEX ra- dar (completed in 1963) to track missiles re-entering the earth's atmospnere. APRIL Xwajalein: tTilleginni Island in 1S selected as the Site for SPARTAN and SPRINT missile ne Mid-Corricor launches. The Illeginni facility is constructed and is controlled from Meck LI 2100S zS.and 17 miles across the lagoon. Xonrad P. Ketrady, M.D.: "The Army'S position was summed up to me one day when a hicghlevel command officer at Kwaja-@1n remarked that the sole purpose of the Army at Kwajalein is to test missile systems. They Nave no concern for the Marshal~ dese and that it is not of any emportance to their being at i i 5 i s i 1971 SEPTEMBER Enewetak: The Dei L BRR eee 20 Xwajalein.” _7 7 . _ -7 Cans Pl PP . _« oe ws a ROI NAMUR ISLAND IN THE NORTHERN PART OF KWAJALEIN ATOLL IS ‘A MAJOR RADAR AND MISSILE TRACKING STATION. <= team permi ision to travel to Rongelap and Ucirik in what che administration The Japanese, terms as visa problems. (continued on page 22) REE SSS SSS See