Psychological Aspects One asnect of the incident which is the subject of this report which has not been widely discussed or been made public concerns the psychological effects of exposure to radiation from nuclear weapons. Dz. William Peck, now Director of the Medex program to the Trust Terri- tory Department of Health Services, was responsible for bringing this area of concern to the Committee's attention. Although his original intention in sneaking of the psychological aspects was in connection with compensation, however it also later developed to be a valid and interesting line of inquiry for the Committee during its visits to Japan and the Marshall Islands District. In some respects, comparision can be made between the Japanese exposed to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-bombs in 1945 and the Rongelapese and Utirikese exposed to fallout in 1954, fer, While figures dif~- it is generally acknowledged that more than 100,000 people died in Japan as a result of the twe .2mbs: many of them were literally vaporized by the heat of the blast near the hypocenter; others died from heat and radiation burns, houses collapsing upon them, flying debris, drowning, suffocation, or being burned in the fires that spread throughout the cities later. Some simply died from lack of adequate medical care, food, water or shelter. The people in the Marshalls were not exposed to such trauma, but rather to a snowlike or mistlike gentle fall of radioactive particles. differences, however, Despite these there is one aspect common to all these cases: the radioactivity produced by the bombs and its effects upon those exposed. Today, in Japan, people are still dying from effects of 156 bO14Tb4