IITTNE.SON woe PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED 7 aea pate ag Pal ey Cone fe a3 St ef ieee eae Day Ni a tea!ne N N \ \ NON / + re? as 8 Re BS ea 3 a By ke Be& 3 6 a am3 FI i a 3 254 Volume V, Number 6 hate Fires iniyerogen Dea th ANOTHER MICRONESIAN CLAIM TO FAME Further remembrances on the ‘incident by Stewart Alsop The neat day I was back in the same room I had occupied more than a year before, when I had frst been admitted to NILL Thad lobar pneumonia, and Johm Glick had hooked me up to the familiar VY. Two bottles of antibiotics dripped alternately into my veins. Tlus Ume, I had the privileged bed beside the window, and the bed vear the door was oc- cupicd by a muscular young man with brown skin, curly black hair, and a huge grin. His name was odd— . He was, it turned out, fiom the Marshall Islands. Ife had heen a one-vear-old baby in igsg, wher we Americans tested our first dehwerable hyciogen bomb ow Bikini, one of the Marshalls, As it happened, | hues a good deal about the Bikini bomb. Wilk the help of Dr. Raljh Lapp, an atomic sctendist who usec tooret at oray mentor ie sich matters, T had done «a lot of reporting on it. So had brother Joe. As a result, Joe aud I were the fist to describe, in our joint column, the phenomenon of nuclear talloul. The Bikini bornb was much more powerful than Edward Teller and the other scientists in charge had anticipated. Moicover, it had an unanticipated effect. It churned up sreat mounds of earth below the explosion point. Lhe earth was turned into fight dust by the force af the explosion. This heavily irradiated dust followed the wind patteras un‘st it fell ont of the skies. Some of it fel on the Lucky Diagon, a Japanese trawler more than ninety miles from the explosion point. The members of the crew all suffered FCONTINUED PAGE NINE} we neeee ee PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED