FIFTH CONGRESS OF MICRONESIA ‘FIRST REGULAR SESSION, 1973 PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 36 A SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION Expressing the sorrow and sympathy of the Congress of Micronesia to the family and friends of for his untimely and unwarranted and = irreplaceable loss. 1 2 WHEREAS, on March 1, 1954, Joint Task Force Seven of the United States of America detonated a thermonuclear device, code-named Bravo, on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands District; and WHEREAS, this 15-megaton weapon of war caused an unprecedented radioactive fallout over 7,000 square miles of the Pacific, showering dangerous radioactive particles on the inhabited atolls of Ailinginae Rongelap, Rongerik, and Utirik; and WHEREAS, on the island of Rongelap at that time were 64 human beings, including then Magistrate 10 ll male baby named WHEREAS, . and his one year old ; and since that time numerous cases of radiation-induced 12 growth retardation and thyroid disorders have been diagnosed and 13 treated as a result of annual surveys by a medical 14 to the United States Atomic Energy Commission; and 15 "WHEREAS, 16 l? 18 19 this same medical team last September upon examining found indications of a serious blood disorder and took him to the United States for further examination; WHEREAS, and , nineteen years old, died on November 15, ' 1972, of pneumonia while undergoing treatment for acute myelogenous 20 leukemia at a hospital in the National Institute 21 Rethesda, Maryland; now, therefore, 22 team under contract of Health at BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Fifth Congress of Micronesia, 245 sobs) PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED