SESSION IV 231 and piles of tern eggs, which were also sterile, and very few terns. Now, which is the true story, sir? DONALDSON: Dr. Dunham, during the period from 1946 to 1964 we were at Bikini and Eniwetok for several months most years. We made a total of 23 separate expedicions, No matter how hard we looked we could not find a mudskipper “trying to climb trees,"" In fact, there are no records of mudskippers at either atoll nor are there any mangrove swamps, the preferred habitat for mudskippers. DUNHAM: This was supposed to be an authentic movie of the after- math of the atomic bomb in Bikini. of the atoll, DONALDSON: Maybe you selected different parts I think one would have to do more than select a dif- ferent part of the atoll, inthis particular case. I think even John Wolfe with hia great accomplishments in environmental control couldn't build a mangrove swamp out in Bikini without an outflow of fresh water. This sort of completely falsified popular release is nothing but disgusting. . TAYLOR: Who made that particular movie, do you remember? DUNHAM: It was an Italian movie, It had a lot of other stuff in it. There were beautiful pictures, though, I must admit there were beautiful pictures of wildlife. As Lauren says, undoubtedly the ones of these mudskippers, as they call them, were taken in the mangrove swamps somewhere and there were lovely pictures of giant sea turtles laying eggs. Again they're apparently authentic pictures, FREMONT-SMITH: Maybe it was the photographer that was disoriented; thought he was in Bikini but wasn't, DUNHAM: That could be quite possible. BUSTAD: Are there any natives now on Eniwetok and Bikini; are there any residents there’ DONALDSON: There are no residents on Bikini. The place is delightfully deserted; one can be completely isolated from the outside world here. The native Bikini people were evacuated to Rongerik Atoll in the spring of 1946. Rongerik was downwind from the tests, you recall, on the chart that Bob had onthe board, When we visited this atoll in the summer of 1947, we found that the natives were hard ae . Att ee ane