156 DASA 2019-2 I think they look forward to our coming out. friends, UPTON: away? You speak of mobility. We consider them our Have a number of them moved Have you lost any of the population? CONARD: They have only moved to islands that are readily acc. sible tous, The "Paris" of the Marshall Islands is Ebeye, which is an island just next to Kwajalein, where a large number of Marshallese work for the governme.*%. We have a big Nike-Zeus testing station there. AYRES: Relativ: to what you have been saying in the present conversation so far, of coursc, nothing sericus has happened. They've had these nodules but they are not very obvivus. What do you imagine would happen if something fairly visible occurred, Ict's say a skin cancer or one of these beta burn lesions, and you came out and made quite a fuss about it? Do you anticipate same very serious psychological reactions building up? , CONARD: I think they have the capacity to become emotionally upset about these things. They showed some degree of homesickness, for inatance, when they were on the other island they were temporarily living on. Then the word got around, falsely, by the health aide that none of the women were going to be able to have children again, and this caused quite a bit of furor and concern until we were able to reassure them. FREMONT-SMITH: How did they show this? Justin statements ? CONARD: I got the word indirectly. They didn't come to me with this but [ heard that the health aide had told all the women that they wer not going to be atle to have any more children. Of course, this wis avery bad state «f affairs and we got all the people together and talked to them and expiained. that this was not the case. -SREMONT-SMITH: The crew on the destroyer I was on were all sure they were going to be impotent until I explained to them that the one thing they would not be was impotent.