Word: eniwetok
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the shores of Makin and Eniwetok...
Safety Record Sir: In your March 9 issue . . . you published a short note concerning atomic lesions [suffered in the 1948 Eniwetok atomic tests] . . . The number of patients who received atomic burns was erroneously reported as 40; it should have been four. JAMES BARRETT BROWN, M.D. Saint Louis
...During the existence of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, only five persons connected with the atomic energy program have suffered radiation burns. In 1948 four men at the Eniwetok weapons tests burned their hands when they moved contaminated material without using safety equipment which was provided . . . On June 2, 1952, four persons were exposed to a burst of radiation at Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Ill., when a chain reaction experiment became supercritical for an instant. The exposed personnel . . . were given thorough examinations. No ill effects have been observed...
...expanse of ocean wider than the U.S., consists of 2,130 small, rainy, tropical islands with a total area of 687 sq. mi. and a total native population of 58,000. The territory's value to the U.S. is purely military: some islands serve as bases, others (Bikini, Eniwetok) have served as sites for testing atomic bombs. The new High Commissioner sees his task as "giving the islanders a chance to develop." His headquarters: Honolulu, at least until completion of proposed new headquarters at Truk, southwest Pacific base of the wartime Japanese fleet...
Harry Truman's valedictory warning to Stalin on U.S. atomic development caused remarkably little reaction. One prime reason is that leaders of the U.S. armed forces have been so closemouthed about the explosion of the experimental H-bomb last November at Eniwetok that nobody really knows what, precisely, Truman was talking about...