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: Charles L. Dunham, M.D., Director _
Division of BLlology and Medicine
SUBJECT: MEETING ON BIKINI DATA - JANUARY 24, 1967
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In response to a letter from the Secretary of Interior, Stewart Udall,
end a following letter from Under-Secretary Sisco, Department of State,
the Division of Biology and Medicine called a meeting to consider the
available information on the radiation levels on the Atoll of Bikini
and what additional information would be required to make a rational
decision as to whether or not it would be safe to return the Bikini
natives some 200 strong from Kili, Majuro, Jaluit, and a few other
places to their home atoll. The following persons attended the meeting:
University of Washington
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Dr. Allyn H. Seymour
Dr. Arthur D. Welander
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Brookhaven National Laboratory,
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Dr. Stanton Cohn
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Dr. Gordon M. Dunning
Dr. Roy D. Maxwell
Mr. Tommy F. McCraw
- Mr. Robert E. Allen
Dr. Robert A. Conard
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Division of Operational Safety
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Division of Biology: and Medicine
C. L. Dunham, M.D.
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H. D. Bruner, M.D.
George Milner, Trust Territory
Dr. S. Allan Lough
Federal Radiation Council
Dr. Paul C. Tompkins
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Mr. C. C. Palmiter
Dr. W.E. Lotz
Dr. Leonard Sagan
Health & Safety Laboratory, NYOO
Dr. John : H. Harley
Dr. John N. Wolfe
Mr. Arnold Joseph
Dr. Philip F. Gustafson
Department of Energy
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Division of International Affairs
William L. Yeomans
The meeting was opened with a review of the environmental radiation
situation of the atoll based on the data obtained in the summer of 1964
by the University of Washington group. That 1964 survey was a reconnaissance operation to appraise the overall situation in the atoll. It
included spot survey meter readings for external gamma and gamma-beta
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