Nuclear Contamination on Guam

The facts that support our preliminary findings of nuclear contamination on Guam are as follows:

1. First, Guam is approximately 1200 miles directly West of the Marshall Islands.
2. Second, the Atomic Energy Commission detonated 66 nuclear devices with a total yield of 108,492.2 kilotons, in and around the Marshall Islands (Nuclear Testing in the Marshall Islands: A Brief History. Majuro: Micronitor News and Printing Company, August 1996).
3. Third, there are ten detonations that had the yield necessary (1 megaton) to project material from the center of the explosion to the height of between 12 to 55 miles, and the Marshal Islands, 1946-1977) (Appendix II Figure 2.16. Approximate values of stabilized cloud height and radius as a function of explosion yield for land surface or low airbursts).

4. Fourth, the jet stream travels from the Marshall Islands and carried the Radioactive material as fine dust particles; these particles collected ice at high altitudes and fell to earth condensing in to clouds, this is known as the scavenging effect (The Effects of Nuclear Weapons Compiled and edited by Samuel Glasstone and Philip J. Dolan, Third Edition, Prepared and Published by the United States Department of Defense and the United States Department of Energy).

5. Fifth, the material drops in the form of rain and enters the food and water supply of the local population (Testimony of Charles Bert Schrieber).
6. Sixth, reports from the Navy indicated that they had full knowledge and did not warn or help the local population, this behavior compromises the integrity of the military forces that were put here to protect the very people that they were harming
(Nuclear Agency Report on the Bravo Test Describing the Blast and Subsequent Fallout, and Testimony of Charles Bert Schreiber).
7. Seventh, ships present during the nuclear testing were decontaminated in Guam harbors with acidic detergents and the runoff from these operations went directly in to our local fishing and reef environments (Operation Crossroads, 1946 United States Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Tests Nuclear Test Personnel Review).
8. Eighth, the U.S. Navy preformed radio ecological studies on the
surface water in and around Guam and found a major peak of radioactive contamination in 1959. (University of Washington’s Radio Ecological Studies in the Marshall Islands, 1946-1977 Lauren R. Donaldson, Allyn H. Seymour, and Ahmad E. Nevissi) All of these findings are explained in greater detail, it is important to note that the information taken as a whole paints a picture of a catastrophic environmental abuse on Guam and the surrounding region.
Authored by Charles L. S. Briscoe
Edited by William M. Castro
Consulted by Robert N. Celestial


Blue Ribbon Committee on Radioactive Contamination in Guam

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