wn! -3The "warning area" is an area surrounding the proving grounds within which it is determined that a hazard to shipping or aviation exists, We have established many such areas as have other governments, This map shows such areas off the Pacific Coast at Point Magu, and off the Hawaiian Islands. Here is a large guided missile warning area from Florida across the Bahamas. Here is one maintained by Great Britain off Australia, Including our continental warning areas, we have established a total of 447 such warning and/or danger areas, This particular warning area was first ‘established in 1947, The United Nations were advised and appropriate notices were carried then and subsequently in marine and aeration navigational manuals, Despite such notices there are many instances where accidents or near accidents have resulted from inadvertent trespass in such warning areas, Thewery size of them makes it impossible to fence or police them,/For the day of shot number one, the meteorologists “natiprédmted a wind condition which should have carried the fall-out to the north of the group of small atolls lying to the east of Bikini. The survey aircraft carefully searched the area and reported no shipping, The shot was fired. The wind failed to follow the predictions but shifted south of that line and the little islands of Rongelap, Ronyerik, and Uterik were in the path of the fall-out. A Japanese fishing trawler, the FORTUNATE DRAGON, appears to have been missed by the search but, based on a statement attributed to her skipper, to the effect that he saw the flash of the explosion and heard the concussion six minutes later, it must have been well within the danger area, The 23 crew members on the ship, 28 American personnel manning weather stations on the little islands, and the 236 natives on these islands were therefore within the area of the fall-out, The supposition that the actual blast of the tomb extended over such enormous areas is of course entirely incorrect, The Task Force Commander promptly evacuated all the people from these‘ islands. Z 4 te REPRODUCED AT THE DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER LIBRARY They were taken t> Kwajalein where we maintained a naval establishment and there placed under continuous and canpetent medical supervision. I visited them there last week, Since that time, it has been determined that our weather personnel could he returned to duty but are still being kept on Kwajalein for the benefit of further observation, None of the 28 weather personnel have burns, The 236 natives also appeared to me to be well and happy, The-exeeptions— of diabetes;the-other-#vey Stawoman with crippling|arthritis, Neither.of: thesecxses"HaveConnettionwiththe-tests. Today, a full month after the event, the medical staff on Kwajalein have advised us that they anticipate no illness, barring of course disease which might be hereafter contracted, ~One.wchild.-has.beenborn in the.gromp.and.othensare-expected” t | The situation with respect to the 23 Japanese fishermenis less certain due to the fact that our people have not yet been permitted by the Japanese authorities to make a proper clinical examination, It is interesting to note, however, that the reports which have recently come through to us indicate that the blood count of these men is comparable to that of our weather station personnel, SkhrtesTots ohgerved are thoughtto b -torthe-mMeMtcd)Activityof the.converted material in the cox ther than to- radioactivity;-since-these lesions» a@are-said to-be already healing, The men-are ‘under-continustobservation by Japanese physicians, and we are representediinaSapa ‘by Dr, Morton of the Atomic BombCasualtyCommiesionandMr,Eisenbudof the Atonfié Energy Commission, more