A ee we OS ehae Re Bt Aa rte ee The positioning of 35 of these nuclear explosives before detonation follows: Positionins Number of Tests Barge - 17. whiMapp Mr hhy Pedbe? , Tower _ 9 Land Surface Air Drop Underwater 5 | 2 2 | Of course, land surface tests were the most destructive to the physical condition of the islands by producing still-existing craters or by removing an island usually entirely. All barge tests were offshore on the lagoon side,/off the islands § of Runit (Yvonne) and Enjebi (Janet). Being generally west of these islands, the tests produced radioactivity that the prevailing winds from the northeast generally carried away from the island and over the lagoon. In either the case of a successful nuclear detonation or the case of an unsuccessful nuclear detonation, a spread of radioactivity results in addition to physical damage to the land, vegetation, and animals. In the case of a successful detonation, the following principal radioactive results are: 1, fission products resulting from the fission of the uranium or plutonium used for the nuclear explosive, with significant fission products being cesium-137 and strontiom-90. (Their 30- and 29-year half lives, respectively, roughly correspond to human lifetimes, sotley do not decay appreciably in an acceptable waiting period, nor do they decay sufficiently cow slowly to result in a low amount of radioactivity.