very busy and just don't bother to come for the examination.

Many of them have

changed their jobs and work as merchants, or own their
own apartment buildings.

One man, to his knowledge, is still fishing.
No late effects have been noticed, such as thyroid nodules,
but he did

state that the change in liver function persisted for 12 or 13 years.

Most of

the men have since married and have had normal, healthy children.
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in the chromosomes of the blood cells of the former fisherm
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Department and the AEC to provide care and make studies of the fallout victims.
This group was organized in the United States jointly by two agencies:

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AEC's Division of Biology and Medicine, and the Armed Forces Special Weapons

Development Project of the Defense Department.

Within eight days after the

incident, a group had been organized and been fielded on Kwajalein.

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Annual Reports
One of the first reports published concerning the affected Marshallese and
Americans came out in August, 1955, under the seal of Brookhaven National
Laboratory, a research center connected with Associated Universities
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this group were Dr. E. P. Cronkite and Dr. Robert A. Conard, both from the

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meantime, the Commander of Joint Task Force Seven had requested the Defense

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