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DUNHAM: It's still not Known whether one-third or two-thirds
comes down within severa! nundred miles of a megaton burst.
EISENBUD:
struct them.
You can measure the doses and not have to recon-
AYRES: The particle size distribution, I believe, is now much
better understood than it was two years ago.
DE BOER: This is an area you can't discuss very much because
you get into claesified information. [ think you're really treading
on thin ice now as far as that's concerned.
MILLER: May 1 ask how many casualties there were in the
Marshallese?
CONARD:
What do you mean by casualties ?
MILLER:
That's what { want you to tell me.
FREMONT-SMITH:
You want to know how many there were or
a
what do you mean by casualties ?
WARREN: It's the qualitative rather than the quantitative defini-
tion. You mean some of their white counts fall and there's no other
evidence and they are nauseated and some of them had beta burns
and some didn't.
CONARD: Almost all of these people were affected in some way.
FREMONT-SMITH:
MILLER:
100 percent casualties.
Yes, among the Marshallese.
Casualties in Japan.
But then there were
Dr. Donaldson has told us that the mother of one
of his students was a casualty, and Dr. Schull has told us about a
mother and daughter from Osaka whose fears caused them to seek
medical advice, and who were, I suppose, psychological casualties.
And there may have been many more but these were just a few we
happened to hear about. Il am wondering if perhaps there were not
mass casualties as a result of the Bikini experience. One must think
of the people around tha world, especially those in Japan, who were
casualties medically, economically and/or psychologically.