42 DR. CDR. BUGHER: 4 These people did bathe rather promptly CONARD: Some of them did, but the majority of them did not bathe until they vere/contaminated on the destroyers on fe way back to Rongelap. DR. BUGHER: The Japanese mostly bathe in teacups or rice bowls, and their immediate symptoms tended to be rather severe. They continued. So that those who went to sleep had some trouble getting their eyelids open. They Alderson Reporting Company Washington, D. C. were pretty well stuck together. 10 CDR. CONARD: 11 DR. BUGHER: 12 We had no reports of that kind. It would bear on how much of the calcium oxide had been passed through a hydrated phase_to 13 carbonate. The carbonate in itself whould not be irritating 14 in the slightest. DR. DUNNING: 15 Wouldn't the time between the exposurd 16 and the onset of the burns be so great to speak against them 17 being chemical burns? 18 CDR, CONARD: 19 DR. BUGHER: 20 21 Yes. The lesions appearing two two weeks later are purely beta rays. events. I am thinking of the immediate The Japanese fishermen were considerably closer 22 to the detonation site than the Rongelap people. 23 if they were where they said they were, ARC At least, they were decidedly closer. Bepartic ts eg tray 4 : s owu iania tortar His ARCHIVES DR. BOND: Dr. Bugher, when Dr. Zsuzuki was in