SESSION II
55
have their hair washed and that they had to stay away from home for
a while,
LANGHAM:
How did they respond to this?
DUNHAM: This is all second-hand from talking with them.
of them, the ''doctor, ' what was his name?
One
CONARD:
Jabwe.
DUNHAM:
Jabwe, the ''dector, ' who had some training, decided
CONARD:
But they did anyway.
the water maybe was getting contaminated, and I think he forbade
them to drink water after the first few hours,
DUNHAM: They did anyway. Some of them went swimming to get
the stuff off, Again I don't think it was a panic reaction. There was
nobody to tell them this was radioactivity; there was nobody to get
them excited, and it had happened. I think one of them who had been
in Japan somewhere along the time of the Japanese occupation, recollected that it looked like snow but, of course, wasn't cold.
want to steal your thunders for your afternoon session, Brb,
I don't
CONARD:
They had seen previous shots,
DUNHAM:
They had seen the light.
CONARD:
And this was nothing unusual except it was much larger
than anything they had previously scen, and they described it as the
sun rising in the West, I chink.
EISENBUD:
CONARD:
They wouldn't have seen the Eniwetok shot in 1952,
They saw others.
EISENBUD: Yes. It was my recollection that the Eniwetok shot
certainly was about the same size as Bravo, wasn't it?
DUNHAM:
In 1952?
DONALDSON:
No, no.
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A little less than one-fifth.
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