SESSION IV 201 DONALDSON: You do not see evidence of it. FREMONT-SMITH: I'm glad you gave the answer because the time to give an answer to a question is at the time it's asked and not postpone it, although it's nice to come back to it again later and say... DONALDSON: WARREN: Thank you. Well, on Miller tsland where the blast was... DONALDSON: There's radiation, Dr. Warren, TAYLOR: Yes. I was thinking specificially of aquatic life because you said in places where the surface has really been completely sterilized, there has been a change, I gather, in the surface life of the islands. DONALDSON: Yes. There were very definite changes. CONARD: There's some question as to whether some of the trees, the coconut trees, and the other plants on the northern islands of Rongelap, do not show some signs of geneticeffects. There are some two- crowned coconut trees and this sort of thing, but it's questionable as to whether this is really a radiation effect or whether it's due to the aridity of that part of the atoll, and it hasn't been settled. WOLFE: CONARD: Someone has done a monograph oncoconut palms. Fosberg? WOLFE: No, Menon etal, (Reference 39), And this double crowning—he got a coconut tree in one place with 51 of these crowns and ‘there hadn't been a detonation there, So this could come about maybe with a butcher knife by cutting off the terminal bud; I don't know. It might have been cauged by radiation, but I don't think you can say so definitely. CONARD: WARREN: Eniwetok? Lagree. Weren't there some broad stems, flat stems, in DONALDSON: Yes.