SESSION I! 37 FREMONT-SMITH: Did they know they were in danger? DUNHAM: I don't know if they knew how much danger, There were various degrees of concern, and what they were thinking at that time, I don't think we know. Ralph interviewed a lot before he wrote the book and he was there three years or two years later, which is ap aftex-the-fact recollection, UPTON: You speak of panic, you mean among the crew or among everyone concerned? DUNHAM: No, This was a broad panic almost involving Japan as a whole. I want Merril to mzxe a real contribution now because he was right there. When they monitored the ship, they found radioactivity. They found that the fish, at least the top fish on the catch, were contaminated, They began throwing the fish away. Then the next thing anybody knew was that within a week or so they had thrown away a million tons of fish; almost anything that came from anywhere. They would monitor the run and they would say, "Oh, boy, it's reading, '' and right into the sea it went. Merril, you were right there and you saw what happened. EISENBUD: This whole story has the same element of the Ronge- lap fallout, For example, there's no official report of it, which is surprising. I don't think there is one of the Rongelap fallout; at least I've never seen an over-all comprehensive report covering the thing ‘rom beginning to end, FREMONT-SMITH: EISENBUD: This ie extraordinary, isn't it? Yes. DUNHAM: What kind of a report do you mean? EISENBUD: Well, I mean that ordinarily you would expect that an incident of this magnitude would involve setting up an investigating team and putting out a report which would be availabie to the people who are involved. For example, I never wrote a report on my own experience in Japan beyond the first two weeks because I just waited and waited, presuming I was going to be able to fit it into some sort of over-all report, : DUNHAM: You mean report on the episode, how aud why?