including cancer, disturbances in vision probably due to radiatjon injury, and that the continuing injury is in active elements. JI strongly suspect that the leukemias Cataracts, and deformities of birth are a part of the jarge part due to food-chain entry by long-lived radiowere radiation induced. There are other areas about which I wonder and about which I yet have formed no firm opinion. am suspicious, but as I am told by the islanders that diabetes has become very common. When I spoke to the old people who remember the way the islands were before the nuclear testing, they all routinely deny that Giabetes was a great problem for the inhabitants. Now as I speak to the Marshallese, I think that-they have more diabetes than the Navajo Indians, and I had always thought the highest incidence was among the Navajos. Although Giabetes is exceedingly common among the Marshallese, I Know of no direct radiation effect that causes diabetes. Cn the other hand, I do not know all that is to be known about food chain radiation injury and neither does anybody else. Our particular human experiences on radiation have been either with therapeutic rzediation or the exterior type of radiation at Hireshima and Nagasaki. Knowledge about food-chain radiation‘is scent and I am unable to say whether the diabetes is related to the radiation or not. ere are some Sexual problems among the males of and, Or among the females. A number of men from ll had told me that they cCeveloped a failure of sexual interest after the explesions, this persisting, nd in several cases their families did not expand after the bomb blasts. This also is likely radiation induced but I cannot say whether this is food-chain or whether this ils perhaps external radiation coming from the soil, Since the testicles are in an exposed position, particularly in people who so commonly sit on the ground or squat as do the people of the Marshall Islands. Immediate effects of the radiation occurred in scme individuals who spoke to me, these changes consisting of hair loss, and burns of the skin. The burns of the skin eccurred in those islanders in which there vas a dusty, powdery fallout after the explosion called Braévo, was effected by metereologic or inadvertence. Mist AL cure Tio 7 which There were