by the universe square ration rule, emanating immediately from the bomb would be highly unlikely. I think the 11l effects still persisting on these islands is not only due to soil contamination but is also due to entry of the radioactive elements with a longer half life into the food, where it has been biologically concentrated, and is eaten by the people. Whether the material that contains the radioisotopes is in one particular vegetable or several or whether it is in the fish or birds, the lagoon I simply do not know. fish were involved, One would think, the that if food-chain exposure would involve only a few islands since I am told that lagoon fish usually stay in their lagoon. If the large fish on the seaside that swim between atolls are involved and carry radicactivity in their flesh, these fish also being eaten by the islanders, one would expect a wider diffusion of the effects of the radioactivity, -- which is what has happened. There certainly would be diffusion by birds and actual transfer from one atoll to another of radicactive material in the excrement of birds flying between the attols. The wide diffusion of radioactive effects among the islands of the Marshalls, strongly suggests entry into the food chain with transportation between islands. This is as yet only an opinion. Yet otherwise one must assume that the fallout just simply was so high, and hes spread so far beyond that estimated by our finest nuclear scientist: that Gistaent islands and distant etolls in the Marshalls were involved, bringing about the I have Gescribed. one To my Knowledge, plays that two cases of leukemia were found, in a high covernment officer, There may be others. radiation affects and the other in a boy. I am suspicious also that radiation a part here also because of the in the Negasaki-Eiroshima survivors. I think that these three: frequency of leukemia , the tumors of the thyroid