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 ot
;
for his untimely and unwarranted and
irreplaceable loss,
1
WHEREAS, on March 1, 1954, Joint Task Force Seven of the United
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
Yradioactive 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
&
9
10
WHEREAS, on the island of Rongelap at that time were 64 human
beings, including then Magistrate
male baby named
11
and his one year old |
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
16
17
18
WHEREAS, this same medical team last September upon examining
-
found indications of a serious blood disorder and took
him to the United States for further examination; and
WHEREAS,
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,
PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED