ie bf: genes February 22,974 Volume V, Number 6 Thats First Flverogen Death AINOTIIER MICRONESIAN CLAIM TO FAME The next day I was back in the same room I had occupie more than a year before, when I had first been admitted 1 NIH. I had lobar pneumonia, and Johr Glick had hooke me up to the familiar I.V. Two bottles of antibiotics drippe alternately into my veins. This tme, I had the privilege bed beside the window, and the bed near the door was o cupied by a muscular young man with brown skin, cur black hair, and a huge grin. His name was odd— He was, it turned or from tlie Marshall Islands. He had. been a one-year-. baby in 1954, wher we Americans tested our first delis able hydrogen bomb on Bikini, one of the Marshalls. As it happence, ] knew a good deal about the Bu bomb. With the help of Dr. Ralph Lapp, an atomic sci tist who used to act as mv mentor ia such matters, T ! done a lot of reporting or: it. So had brother Joe. As a resu Joe and I were the first to describe, in our joint column,t phenomenon of nuclear fallout. Further remembrances on the ‘acident by Stewart Alsop The Bikiai boinb was much more powerful than Edwa Teller and the other scientists in charge had anticipate Moreover, it had an unanticipated effect. It churned | great moundsof earth below the explosion point. The ear was turned into light dust by the force of the explosic This heavily irradiated dust followed the wind patterns + til it fell out of the skies. Suine of it fell on the Luc Dragon, a Japanese trawler more than ninety miles frc the explosion point. The meinbers of the crew all suffer PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED [CONTINUED PAGE NINE!