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...champagne in mid-Pacific, 4,800 miles from California. Wilkinson, director of U.S. Army effort known as "Homing Overlay Experiment," had good reason to hope for some insomnia in Moscow: his project scored its first success last week. A special interceptor rocket fired from Meek Island in the Kwajalein archipelago had struck the dummy warhead of a Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that had been launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California some 30 earlier. Military analyst described the collision, which pulverized both projectiles more than 100 miles above the earth's surface, as a major technological...
...deployment of defensive missile systems while allowing experiments to proceed. (The Soviets were permit ted to keep the ABM system they had already built to defend Moscow.) So far, the Soviets have had no official reaction to the Homing Overlay test, even though an electronic spy ship stationed off Kwajalein monitored the entire experiment...
...standards the tests were primitive, not advanced. The article next implies that such tests are going on today, further raising body radiation counts among the effected people. This is a total untruth, since none of the tests involved has anything to do with nuclear explosions. Missiles fired into Kwajalein lagoon are unarmed and are retreived--one of the principal reasons for firing into the lagoon in the first place. Extensive and repeated tests show conclusively that these tests do not raise radiation levels to any measurable degree--and indeed, they show that Kwajalein lagoon has a lower level of radiation...
Islanders did receive examinations at the Kwajalein Navy base, with doctors sending most of them back to their contaminated islands. People from the Utrik islands had received "small am-mounts of radiation (14 rads) and could therefore return home," Brookhaven National Laboratory doctors found. "Their island was only slightly contaminated and considered safe for habitation...
Residents of the affected islands in Micronesia have called for compensation for the damages caused for testing and have asked President Reagan to declare a moratorium on testing missiles at Kwajalein Atoll. To date, nothing has come of the discussions...