@ Page Five Jonathan Weisgall January 21, 1982 ..,--- the MarshalIs. My doctoral dissertation specifically addresses this issue, and for the past seven years I have been gathering data about the social and cultural effects associated with the weapons tests. I am distressed by the fact that the Brookhaven researchers have continually Ignored the psychological impact of the weapons tests, and “ I consider the psychological problems to be as important as the actual radiation-induced pathologies in terms of how the weapons tests have disrupted Marshallese culture. For example, when I was in the’’Marshalls last year, I spoke with Jabwe Jojur who is the magistrate of Rongelap. Jabwe explained that since 1970, when the DOE and DOD made the radiological survey of the Northern Marshalls, that DOE declared the northern half of Rongelap off-limits due to dangerous levels of residual radiation. Jabwe told me of the fears his people have of living at Rongelap, and related that the people know that fish in the lagoon circulate throughout the entire lagoon. Jabwe explained that