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WEAPONS TESTING
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1966 continued
Brookhaven scientists take
U.S. to consume under laboratory conditions.
After several weeks' study,
they report: ‘The intake of strontium
90 over a seven day period vas twenry
times higher chan normal and that of
cesium 137, sixty times higher than
normal."
1968 APRIL Kwajalein: The Kwajalein Test Site is renamed the
"Kwajalein Missile Range" ‘KMR).
fense Nuclear Agency and the Air Force
sponsor the Pacific Cratering Experiments (PACE) on Enewetak.
More than
%
Rongelap:
Marshallese food items from Rongelap
(pandanus fruit and coconuts) to the
220 tons of explosives are brought to
Enewetak for this series of tests which
will simulate nuclear bomb blasts.
DECEMBER Rongelap: A Japanese medical
survey team, including a thyroid specialist, comes to the Marshall Islands
at the request of Marshallese leaders
to conduct an “independent” medical
survey. The American Trust Territory
administration refuses the medical
1969 OCTOBER The Congress of Micronesia,
representing all six Micronesian
cistricts, Segins negotiations with the United States to end the U.N. Trusteesnip in favor of a new political status.
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1970
Xwajalein: Two additional racars (ALCOR and ALTAIR) become operational as part of the Hiernan Re-Entrv
“€asurements Site (KREMS) on Roi Namur
island, combining with the TRADEX ra-
dar (completed in 1963) to track missiles re-entering the earth's atmospnere.
APRIL Xwajalein:
tTilleginni Island in
1S selected as the
Site for SPARTAN and SPRINT missile
ne Mid-Corricor
launches.
The Illeginni facility is
constructed and
is controlled
from Meck
LI 2100S
zS.and 17 miles across the lagoon.
Xonrad P. Ketrady, M.D.:
"The Army'S position was summed up to me one day when a hicghlevel command officer at Kwaja-@1n remarked that the sole purpose of the Army at Kwajalein is
to test missile systems.
They
Nave no concern for the Marshal~
dese and that it is not of any
emportance to their being at
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ROI NAMUR ISLAND IN THE NORTHERN
PART OF KWAJALEIN ATOLL IS ‘A MAJOR
RADAR AND MISSILE TRACKING STATION.
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team permi ision to travel to Rongelap
and Ucirik in what che administration
The Japanese,
terms as visa problems.
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