Pt 22S OE2 0 es 0 WEAPONSTESTING SQ REE EE eee ee a 1958 continued a goon becomes an ‘impact area” for inAtomic Energy Commission's nuclear exa coming Inter-Continental Ballistic Misperiments at Bikini and Enewetak, the | importance of the Kwajalein Navy base siles (ICBM's) shot from Vandenberg Air a diminishes. The Navy places it on the Force Base in California. a military base surplus list. a a a 1960 Kwajalein: An “impact area" for “...Several of my babies who a incoming missiles is established, exwere healthy at the time they were a tending from the southern tip of Kwajaborn died before they were a year a lein Atoll southwest 50 miles to Lib: IsOld...Altogether I lost four.baland, whose inhabitants must be relocata bies. My son Winton was born just ed. one year after the bomb, and he | has had two operations on his a Kwajalein: Radar, technical buildings, throat for thyroid cancer.” a missile assembly and missile launching Minji Kel, Utirik Atoll. i facilities are built on Kwajalein Isa land. Related radio receiving/transa mitting equipment and living quarters 1959 Rongelap: The Rongelap people a are constructed on Gugeegue and Ennylaare warned by Brookhaven scientists not | began islands, located on opposite sides to eat the plentiful coconut crabs, cona Sidered a delicacy in the Marshalls, be- of the lagoon about 8 miles north aks a Kwajalein. cause of high radiation levels. No a other restrictions are placed on food ) Kwajalein: A major radar installation, consumption. a computer buildings and a launching site a for firing missiles are constructed on Kwajalein: The Navy base's importance a Roi Namur Island, 40 miles north of re-emerzes as it is chosen as the testa Kwajalein Island. ing site for the Nike-Zeus anti-missile a missile tests; Roi Namur Island (in the a northern part of Kwajalein Atoll) is a selected as a center for studying misa sile re-entry characteristics; and the 1961 Kwajalein: The first Zeus nisNaval Station is renamed "Pacific Misa Ssile is test fired from Kwajalein. It Sile Range Facility Kwajalein." is being developed to destroy incoming a a 5 i a a a a a a a a B a a a a a a a i Enewetak: In support of Kwajalein's Pacific Missile Range, Enewetak's la- enemy missiles. 1962 JULY Kwajalein: A Zeus missile successfully intercepts, for the first time, an ICBM shot from Vandenberg Air Force Base. 1963 Rongelap: The first thyroid tumors begin appearing among the Rongelap people exposed in 1954. Also, a higher chan normal incidence of growth retardation among young Rongelapese is reported. 1964 L Ce Oe eee 2002b1) Kwajalein: The prime user of (continued on page 18) 1S ESSER ee eee ee