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Any one else have a question for Mr. Marshall?

Before

leave the sampling program, I'd like to mention a subject!
Colonel Holsman is connected vith.

which

Several veeks ago ve

considering this stratospheric storage, and concinded

then as -

we did this morning, that it probably exists, that there
probably a lot of radioactivity in the high layers of

atmosphere, ani the question is how te prove this.

It

obvious from remarks this morning that rainstorms and
vagaries of weather make the assay of rains a rather um

ble

way of establishing it quantitatively. So we wonder how

RB

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sexple the high atacsphere and get senples dove vhich giv
poms qualitative notion cf the content cf radleactivity.

are two aspocts -- cne is to get up there, and the other [
get the radioactivity out of the air.

We asked Colonel

to make some measurenents on jet afroraft which are ope!

Me

out of Kirtland, and I'd like to give him a couple of nis
to tell us about that.

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I knoy these data are very poor, ftut

there ie some radicactivity on these airplanes, and as I
understand it, they vere not in any etonio cloud that

knew off
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That's right, Dr. Libby. About a month or so ago, Dr.

ladty

requested just a yes-and-no answer as to whether any of
jets were picking up any radicsctivity.

So we ran a "qu

and-dirty* test on this. There were about fifteen aircrafts
Ve made sure that the alroraft wers rct these which nighh have
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