360 DASA 2019-2 incapacitated by such fears. [don't know what the numbers were, but L thaught they were large. DUNHAM: MILLER: even higher. Was it 10 percent or 50 percent? 1 would have guessed that it was 50 percent or perhaps DUNHAM: You mean these people were essentially not contributing anything to society? MILLER: No, but they were living in fear; fear of marriagpe when they pot older, fear of having defective offspring. MILLET: What percentage did you say? MILLER: I said I would have guessed over 50 percent hadthis apprehension of late effects; premature aging, premature mortality, leukemia, children with congenital defects. CONARD: Inthe Marshallese there were many fears, too, about the fallout. For instance, they attributed fish poisoning, that has been going on for years in these people, to the fallout. If the arrowroot flour is improperly prepared it can cause a soreness of the mouth and digestive tract and they immediately started claiming that this was due to the radioactive fallout that had gotten on the plants. You do have these psychological factors that need an awful lot of reassurance by competent authorities. UPTON: Didn't you say, Staff, that they were thoroughly demoralized; that there was speculation about a poison associated with the detonations, which caused panic and hysteria and anxiety among the survivors? Then they sawtheir fellows suddenly sickening and dying after they thought they had escaped. Families lost dear members of the household after a time when supposedly they had escaped unscathed. This led to a succession of recurrent waves of .farm. WARREN: UPTON: MILLET: That's right. And depression. Over howlong a period did that go on?