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For the upcoming Castle nuclear test series in the Marshall Islands , scientists at Los Alamos , New Mexico , set up a series of projects for experiments they would like to see occur during the test series. This list was distributed on November 10, 1953. This was four months prior to the Castle Bravo radiological disaster. Project 4.1 was entitled "Study of Response of Human Beings Exposed to Significant Beta and Gamma Radiation due to Fall-Out from High Yield Weapons." On March 1, 1954, the Bravo test was conducted. On April 29, 1954 documents recording Project 4.1 were released, titled "Study of Response of Human Beings Accidentally Exposed to Significant Fall-Out Radiation." When these documents were brought to the attention of the U.S. government in 1994, the government responded that someone had gone back into the project list after the Bravo test to insert Project 4.1, thus the acts were not premeditated. However, at this time the U.S. was already conducting Human Radiation Experiments on its own people. 236 Marshallese were exposed to significant radiation, and the residents of Rongelap Atoll were the most seriously affected, receiving about 180 rads of radiation before they were evacuated. One young boy died of radiation exposure (his feet so badly burned by radiation that the bones were visible), while other islanders experienced serious Radiation Sickness and terrible long-term health problems. REFERENCES
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