by the universe square ration rule, emanating immediately
from the bomb would be highly unlikely.
I think the 11l effects still persisting on these
islands
is not only due to soil contamination but is also
due to entry of the radioactive elements with a longer
half life into the food, where it has been biologically
concentrated,
and is eaten by the people.
Whether the
material that contains the radioisotopes is in one particular vegetable or several or whether it is in the fish
or birds,
the
lagoon
I
simply do not know.
fish were
involved,
One would think,
the
that if
food-chain exposure
would involve only a few islands since I am told that
lagoon fish usually stay in their lagoon.
If the large
fish on the seaside that swim between atolls are involved
and carry radicactivity in their flesh, these fish also
being eaten by the islanders, one would expect a wider
diffusion of the
effects
of the
radioactivity,
--
which
is what has happened.
There certainly would be diffusion
by birds and actual transfer from one atoll to another of
radicactive material in the excrement of birds flying
between the attols.
The wide diffusion of radioactive effects among the
islands of the Marshalls, strongly suggests entry into
the food chain with transportation between islands.
This
is as yet only an opinion.
Yet otherwise one must assume
that the fallout just simply was so high, and hes spread
so far beyond that estimated by our finest nuclear scientist:
that Gistaent islands and distant etolls in the Marshalls
were involved, bringing about the
I have Gescribed.
one
To my Knowledge,
plays
that
two cases of leukemia were found,
in a high covernment officer,
There may be others.
radiation affects
and the other in a boy.
I am suspicious also that radiation
a part here also because of the
in the Negasaki-Eiroshima survivors.
I think that these three:
frequency of leukemia
,
the tumors of the thyroid