1966 continued
ditions.
fense Nuclear Agency and the Air Force
sponsor the Pacific Cratering Experi-
ments (PACE) on Enewetak.
More than
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Rongelap: Brookhaven scientists take
Marshallese food items from Rongelap
. (pandanus fruit and coconuts) to the
U.S. to consume under laboratory con-
220 tons of explosives are brought to
Enewetak for this series of tests which
will simulate nuclear bomb blasts.
After several weeks' study,
they report: “The intake of strontium
90 over a seven day period was twenty
DECEMBER Rongelap: A Japanese medical
times higher than normal and that of
cesium 137, sixty times higher than
normal."
survey team, including a thyroid specialist, comes to the Marshall Islands
at the request of Marshallese leaders
to conduct an “independent™ medical
survey. The American Trust Territory
1968 APRIL Kwajalein: The Kwajalein Test Site is renamed the
administration refuses the medical
"Kwajalein Missile Range” (KMR).
1969 OCTOBER The Congress of Micronesia, representing all six Micronesian
districts, begins negotiations with the United States to end the U.N. Trustee-
ship in favor of a new political status.
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Ne
1970
Kwajalein: Two additional ra-
tional as part of the Kiernan Re-Entry
Measurements Site
Island, combining
dar (completed in
siles re-entering
phere.
(KREMS) on Roi Namur
with the TRADEX ra1963) to track misthe earth's atmos-
APRIL Kwajalein: Illeginni Island in
the Mid-Corridor is selected as the
site for SPARTAN and SPRINT missile
launches.
The Illeginni facility is
‘ constructed and is controlled from Meck
a
Island 17 miles across the lagoon.
.
Konrad P. Kotrady, M.D.:
4
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te
SP
PART OF KWAJALEIN ATOLL IS A MAJOR
RADAR AND MISSILE TRACKING STATION.
have no concern for the Marshali-~
lese and that it is not of any
importance to their being at
Kwajalein.”
—
team permi;:sion to travel to Rongelap
and Utirik in what the administration
terms as visa problems.
The Japanese,
1971 SEPTEMBER Enewetak: The Dewe a ee ie pe pe
pega
ROI NAMUR ISLAND IN THE NORTHERN
They
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'
to test missile Systems.
o
“The Army's position was summed up to me one day when a highlevel command officer at Kwajalein remarked that the sole purpose of the Army at Kwajalein is
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