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the missile range is the Army Z3allistic
Missiie Defense program, which tests,
among others, the Minutemen, Titan, Polaris, Sprint, Spartan, Nike and Zeus
missiles.
The range also supports Air
Force and Navy testing of ICBM's, Inter-
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of Eniwetak (not to be confused with
Enewetak Atoll), Omelek, Gellinam and
Legan. On Ennylabegan, additional telemetry equipment is installed and live
ing quarters built.
mediate Range Balliscic Missiles, and
Sea Launched Ballistic Missiles.
Rongelap: The Rongelap peoples' body
JULY 1 Kwajalein: Command of Kwajalein
taminated islands, have remained at the
same level since then, according to
Brookhaven's 12 year report.
is transferred from the Navy to the
Army, and the missile range is renamed
"Kwajalein Test Site." At this time
the range consists of facilities on
five islands: Kwajalein, Roi-Namur,
Eniwetak, Sugeegue and Ennylabegan.
1966 JANUARY Rongelap: The U.S.Con-
KWajalein: A new ‘impact area’ for in-
coming Inter-Continentai Ballistic MisThe central :wosiles is established.
thirds of the lagoon, called the ‘MidCorridor,’ is designated as the new
target area because it is surrounded 5v
islands with nissile tracking and tes¢t-
lagoon
that bound
are
islands,
The 47
ing devices.
nabited,
in
manv
ia-
this part of the
the hazarcous
zone.
new target area provides a reccveryv
levels of radiation, which jumped in
1958 after living one year on their con-
The
gress approves an ex-gratia payment of
$950,000 (approximately $11,000 per canita) to the exposed Rongelap people
“or injuries resulting from their ex-
posure in 1954.
JUNE Rongelap: Of the 29 children who<
were under 10 years old in 1954 (including « in utero during the fallouc) 15,
or 52% have developed thyroid abnormalrties,
wes
SEPTEMBER “waialein: President Lyndon
Rongelap: A Bookhaven medical report
shows little difference in radioacrivitv levels between those exposed in
1954, and those who had not been chere
in 1954, but moved back after 1957.
Satellites,
Moreover,
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from enemy catrols.
DaSin tretected
somnson anncunces the U.S. has an operational svstem for shooting cown Sovierc
ceveloped
from tests
called
“Prozect -3°" begun in May 1263 at Xwa-
Salein.
the body levels of radioacti-
vity of these previously unexposed
Rongelapese was 10 times greater than
that of Marshallese living on Kili Island in the southern Marshalls.
1965 FEBRUARY Enewetak: The Air
“One of the things that has
bothered us over the years is the
fact that the AEC doctors have
Force assumes control of the missile
range at fnewetak Atoll.
Kwajalein: To gather information on the
never bothered to explain our
problems to us--instead they treat
uS aS if we were merely children
and we resent that."
Jirda Biton, Utirik Atoll.
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atmosphere re-entry of missiles fired
from VandenSerg Air Force Base, a va~
riety of instrumentation and tracking
facilities and helicopter landing pads
are built oa the Mid-Corridor islands
1965 JULY The Congress of Micronesia, a territory-wide legislative body mod-
eled on the U. S. Congress, holds its first session after being created by an
executive order of President Lyndon Johnson in 1964.
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