eee 1. For the first time a population hasbeen subjected to a highly radio- active fall out for an appreciable length of time, 2e This small population wes only raciated and there could not be the other factors of blast and heat. 3. This radiated group, because of the circurstances, was forced to live in a radioactive contaminated shelter, we2r radioactive clothes_,, eat radioactive food, and wash with radioactive water, 4. For the first time a group has respired in a radioactive atmosphere for several hours. - 5, For the first time a group has eaten hizhly radioactive foods, 6. There is the highly relevant question of a ship fleeing towards the Hast from an event in the west running into a radioactive dust coming towards it from the Last, 7. Yew will the signs and symptoms of the fall out effects differ from the riciation 2ffects of the Yiroshina and Nagasaki bsnmbs? &. Lastly, what will be the ultimate fate of these men not only in terms of days or years; but in terms of their age of death, cause of death, procreation, genetic mutations, etc.? At the request of the Atomic Energy Comcission, the directcr of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission was asked to proceed to Tokyo to cetermine the condition of two patients who were reported to be there. Ee was instcucted to make as careful an appraisal as he could of their present status and of their progress Since arrival on March 15th, These two patients vere considered to be the most Seriously injured of the crew and had been taken to Tokyo University Hospital where Japanese experts would be responsible for their examination and treatxent. aK