PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED 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. 10141b5 It is the un- . 157 PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED