54 DASA 2019-2 had been unable to clean her enough to get the radiation down below our 24-hour level, Twice I went to the l2th Naval District where she was Lerthed to persuade the commanding officer to delay her sinking temporarily. She was a fine example of gencral contamination inside and out, and would have been fine training resource. The first time an inexperienced person walks into a situation where he's surrounded by contamination and the meters showit, he can hear the buzz on the Geiger counter, he realizes he's in a hazardous situation e-d he's cither prepared or not prepared to deal with it, But he should be prepared and he can be prepared to deal with it and conduct himself with some safety, We needed a place like that, a real situation as this ship represented. But they finally .soh: it out and sank it. [think part of it was to get it out of sight, out of mind, FREMONT-SMITH: WARREN: ‘Let's forpet about it," [t was a hazard they wanted to furget. DUNHAM: Maybe we should move on from this background as to why the Task people behaved as they did. They behaved in same ways very much like the Command in Hawaii, when the little fellow running the radar at the ack-ack installation at Pearl Harbor reported he saw some planes coming in. FREMONT-SMITH: : Exactly. DUNHAM: [think as far as the Rongelap people go—and if anybody wants to disagree, they can take this up right here—that until one comes to the end of the line almost, tiere's no particular psychological problem. They were dealt with, I think, well. They were put in good »%arracks and taken care of. They were probably given too much to eat and had good medical care and there was very little protesting. Isn't this penerally the situation, Bob, as far as the people are concerned? They were not enthusiastic about having to leave their atoll but they bore with it. They were not having any abcrrant psychological responses. . CONARD: , This is generally true. There were @ few psychological reactions resulting from the fallout situation on Rongelap after they were moved back tothe island. I will refer to these later. DUNHAM: They still didn't really know what happen.d., They were told that something happened. They were told that they had to