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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. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Los Alamos usually refers to the United States national laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico which was founded during the World War II effort to develop the atomic bomb (the Manhattan Project), was one of the two laboratories developing the USAs nuclear weapons during the Cold War, and is... State nickname: Land of Enchantment Official languages English and Spanish Capital Santa Fe Largest city Albuquerque Governor Bill Richardson (D) Senators Pete Domenici (R) Jeff Bingaman (D) Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 5th 315,194 km² 0. ... Castle Bravo was the code name given to the first U.S. test of a so-called dry fuel thermonuclear device, detonated on March 1, 1954 by the United States, as the first test of Operation Castle (a longer series of tests of various devices). ...

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." Beta particles are high-energy electrons emitted by certain types of radioactive nuclei such as potassium-40. ... This article is about electromagnetic 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. Since the discovery of ionizing radiation, a number of human radiation experiments have been performed to understand the effects of ionizing radiation and radioactive contamination on the human body. ...

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. Rongelap Atoll is an island-atoll located in Micronesia. ... Radiation poisoning, also called radiation sickness, is a form of damage to organic tissue due to excessive exposure to ionizing radiation. ...

References

• Barker, Holly M. (2004). Bravo for the Marshallese: Regaining Control in a Post-Nuclear, Post-Colonial World, Wadsworth. ISBN 0534613268
• Republic of the Marshall Islands Embassy
• The Mayor of Rongelap discusses Project 4.1