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...looked like salt," said one of the 82 natives, recalling the shower of radioactive ash that fell on Rongelap atoll in the Marshall Islands in March 1954. "It came down like rain, and it burned when it touched your skin." An unexpected shift of wind had carried the ash from H-bomb tests 150 miles away, off Bikini...
...more than three years the homesick and bewildered people of Rongelap stayed on in exile as charges of the U.S. Government, while nuclear experts checked the lingering radioactivity on their native island. Last year, when it became apparent that Rongelap would soon be free of danger, the Navy invited a handful of native leaders to come help them plan a new village in anticipation of the islanders' return. It was to include brand new modern houses with heat-resistant, rainproof aluminum roofs, a new school, a new hospital, a church, a radio station, scientifically planted groves of coconut designed...
...Francisco has been checking the radioactivity of animals, plants, materials, etc., in the vicinity of the crater. In Science, Herbert W. Weiss and William H. Shipman tell what they found when they checked the flesh of two giant "killer" clams (Tridacna gigas) collected last year from the shore of Rongelap atoll, 150 miles away from the South Pacific test site...
Some of the inhabitants of the two little atolls of Rongelap and Utirik, caught accidentally in a rain of radioactive coral dust from the March 1 H-bomb test (TIME, March 22), were showing distressing symptoms-" lowering of blood count, burns, nausea, and the falling off of hair from the head," said the petition. " The people . . . would have avoided much danger if they had known not to drink the waters on their home island after the radioactive dusts had settled on them." U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. was quick to tell the U.N. that the U.S. was " very sorry...