br ought or sold.
In their culture the land and marine
_environment of the atoll are fully integrated with the human
members of the society. | It is an economic resource and more.
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To be sure, their society has undergune and continuousiy is
undergoing change as a result of forces both within and without,
but the extraordinary significance of their being able to
resettle to the atoll discovered by their ancestors remains
constant.
Thus,
.
the People of Enewetak are both the prime beneficiaries
and the prime risk-takers in this resettlement program.
is in the assessment and,
if possible,
And it
elimination of the radio-
biological health risk that they are the most dependent upon the
United States government.
The Defense Nuclear Agency and the
Atomic Energy Commission have already devoted great amounts of
“time and money to assessment and remedy of radiolegical problems
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presented by this program, but more will have to be done and it
to be, done over a long period of time.
And throughout,
the People of Enewetak will rely upon the responsible agencies
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of the United States government to do everything possible to
assess and minimize the risk due to the residual radioactivity
in the Enewetak biosphere.
Nothing said in these comments,
for
example, should ever be taken as an assumption of risk -by the
people of Enewetak.
When they left the Atoll in 1947 at the
insistence of the United States government it was radiologically
safe.
That is
the state in which it should be for their return.
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