401499 April ll, 1978 . K sepresentative Paul Rogers Nouge Subcommittee on Health & Environment nouse of Representatives shi ngt ash ing toon, D.C, 20515? | Cear tepresentative Rogers: BEST COPY AVAILABLE IT velleve ba you are condii¢ting: hearings on loge 1. aand the effects of nuclear tests on Bikini. Any accounts of this testing in the Bikini islands which I have read leave me appalled that our government deliverately contaminates a peautiful area, leaving #2 ceorle homeless, poisoning vegetation, water and all life. what right does our government have to force teople to leave Then their homes so that dangerous experiments can te made? arter letting 109 inhabitants veturn to the islami in 1975, radiation was still declared too high "in some parts of the island" for habitation. Then it was discovered that original reports were in error - that radiation levels in soil and water were above safety standards, and as a result the replant 4 Tnen in 1377 the island was food staples were contaminated, declared unsafe for human habitation and is to ove totally evacuated azain, How could such a potentially fatal error harcren? Can 41t be called an accident? Yo dontt think so. I tnink our government cares little about the life of a few human beings compared with these “all-important tests" on the effect of radiation on every living thing. The men who are 30 bent on nuclear power Should sect @3 guinea pigs ~ they are seientists and can analyze themselves and their children for the long-range effect of radiation on the husian race and environment. on unknowing people Ls appalling. The experimentation task uct not only undesyround testing oe banned - as asked by Leonid Brezhnev ~ but that all radioactive and nuclear testing be outlawed. That we transfer that eftort anc those millions. or taxpayers! money into solar experiments.for the good of all humenity. ( iGo Rect Helen Cingsour 3U% boy resentative Henry Waxman epresentativa gohn Burton itor Alan Cranston PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED