fe Appendix Il — Chronological Listing of Pertinent Events in the Marshall Islands 1946 Bikini people moved from homeisiand to Rongerik Atoll. Later evacuated to Kwajalein andfinally settled on Kili Island in the Southern Marshaiis. Kwajalein established as U.S. Navy Base. Operation Crossroads at Bikini. Thyroid abnormalities begin to appear in the Rongelap people. Thyroid surgery performed on three children at Guam Navai Hospital. 1965 1969 Annual examination of Utirik peopie. Clean-up of Bikini begins. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands established, administered by U.S. Navy. 1948 1951 Administration ofTrust Territory transferred to U.S. Departmentof Interior. 1954 March 1: Fallout accident following detonation of Bravo, a thermonuclear device. Evacuation of exposed people: 28 American servicemen from Rongenk Atoll, 82 Marshallese from Rongelap ‘ and Ailingnae Atolls, and 157 from Utirik Atoll. A Japanese fishing vessel, the Lucky Dragon, with 23 aboard, exposed to fallout and returns to Japan arnving March 14. The fishermen are hospitalized. Near panic in Japan about the effect of fallout on fishing industry. March 8: AEC-sponsored emergency medical team arrives at Kwajalein to carry out examination and treatmentof the exposed people for the next two months. April 15: American servicemen transferred to Tripler Army Hospital under the care of the U.S. Army. May: The Utirik people returned to their home atoll. Rongelap people moved to a temporary village on Ejit Leland, Majuro Atoll 1956 1957 Congressman from Marshall Ialand visite Japan and invites a Japanese team to examine the Rongelap people. Team arrives, but denied visit to Rongeiap due to improper visas and forced to return to Japan. Return of two families to Bikini to live. BNL medical team assumes responsibility for radiological monitoring of returning Bikini People. Documentary movie “Thyroid Nevplasia asa Late Sequela of Radioactive Fallout’ filmed in Marshall Isiands. Shows the medical team in action. 1972 Marshallese Congressman accuses the U.S. of knowingiy allowing the Marshallese people to be exposed to radioactive fallout in order to study the effect of radiation on human beings; accuses medical team ofusing Rongelap people as guinea . pigs and not giving them proper medical exami- nations and adequate treatment. In March he told the Rongelap and Utirik people not to coop- erate with the medical team. The annual medical survey was not completed. Also, four patients who had been operated on for thyroid cancer and were to be reezamined at Tripler Army Hospital. ware stopped and told bythe Marshallese poiitical leaders to return home. Congress ofMicronesia establishes a Special — Joint Committee to investigate the medical Examinations of the Rongelap and Utirik people. New village at Rongelap completed and the First resident physician stationed in the Marshail Islands. Periodic environmental radiation surveys contin- Annual medical survey resumed, with cooperation from Committee from Congress of Micronesia and participation of four appointed ued along with the medical examinations. 1964 1971 Regular. continuing examinations and treatment program of the Marshallese established under the auspices of BNL and coordinated with the Health Services of the Trust Territory. Robert . Conard appointed Director ofthe program. Rongeiap people returned to their home atoll. 1963 Thyroid surgery on five Marshallese at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital, Cleveland. Enewetak people moved to Ujelang Atoll. Enewetak established as a base of operations for future nuclear testing. Thyroid surgery.on 12 Rongelap people at New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston. Poliomyelitis epidemic in Marshall Islands including Rongelap. Pacific Missile Range under U.S. Army Command established at Kwajalein. Ex gratia compensation granted Rongelap people by U.S. Congress ($11,000 per person). sbuk2 1b examinations at Rongeiap and Utirik Atolls. Chairman: Senator Olympio G. Borja. medical observers from several countries. Comprehensive report generaily favorable to the medical examinations published. A young Rongeiap man, found to have acute myelogenous leukemia, dies at the National 63