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the homhs droprned there nearly 28 years ago and today in the Marshall
Islands,
people are still being found with diseases apparently caused
by H-bomb fallout nearly 19 vears ago.
Hiroshima,
In
who,
the
the Committee has
Japan,
aS mentioned
is
earlier,
to meet with
honor
survivor
an A-homb
and director of the Hiroshima A-bomb Hospital.
-
mentioned
the uneasiness or the feeling of uncertainty survivors like himself
felt about the future,
a feeling which,
he said, was shared hy "all
survivors",
Later, during its first trip to meet with the peonle of Rongelan
and Utirik,
the Committee posed
the question of
whether or
people who were exposed felt uneasy ahout their exposure.
at meetings on both islands was generally:
the
not
The answer
"Whenever we have a cold,
or some other kind of sickness, we think of the homhb."
The Committee was most impressed by the answer given by the Lucky
an a meeting in Tokyo with
Dragon survivor,
when
Dr.
Kumatori,
was
first asked,
the
mitted
to
ease?
Did he
asked
how he
felt
the annual
about
his
remarks,
uneasy?
experience,
examinations
Was
Kumatori works.
Institute where Dr.
feel
anxiety over
about his
suh-
he
his mind
translated,
as
He
at
were,
I am satisfied."
He was
then asked how he felt when he contracted a normal illness,
Nid he
“Psychologically,
think of
I trust Dr.
Kumatori and
the hbomh and the fallout?
His answer was,
“Immediatelyv."
The Committee thus believes that one of the late or long term
effects of irradiation in the case of
the Rongelanese and Utirikese
is that of the anxiety they share about the future.
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