v 8. ts how referred to a» Bogeirik has thanged to such a degree that some of the tepresentatives from Ujelang questioned whether or not it was the baie teilanhd or was & new island resulting from the blasts. The secondary growth oh the island had teturned as had the bird life. The troij hoted that the islands had previously been set aside as bird Banctuaries ahd that he Was pleased that so many birds had retumed. One of the representatives caught a bird which was duly killed and plucked on the return trip to the ship. The next island that we visited was Engebi. Engebi (Code named Arthur) has an area of .343 sq. miles and had been the location of an important Japanese fighter strip during W.W. II. . The island had received extremely heavy naval and aerial bombardment during the Pacific offensive in 1944, We were requested not to cross into the area to the north of the airstrip since NASA had launched a Beryllium (Glucinum) rocket from the launch site located there. were told that Beryllium is a highly We toxic metal and that the area had not yet been "cleaned" but would be before Building the island could again become inhabited. There is no radioactivity in the area resulting frem the rocket launch. There is a large three story structure located on the island which is referred to as the "apartment". The building consists of several units which are contiguous to but not structurally connected to one another. Each section utilizes different structural designs and materials. For example, one section is built of reinforced concrete and faced with metal siding attached to furring strips while the adjacent unit is constructed on large steel columns. The purpose of the structure apparently was to test the effects of a nuclear air burst upon different types of structures. The unit which sustained the most obvious damage was the unit Reinforced having a concrete second and third stories supported upon reinforced concrete columns. The columns failed and the unit is now a two story structuré which has a 12' setback from the original building line. S5d0025h4 Concrete Columns ~"> Metal Face ™,. ! «Steel Columns