the development of procedures, and the training of personnel. Included
also was the responsibility for installation and operation of

communications and electronics systems for monitoring and displaying

the air situation, for air warning and control, and for navigational
aids. Corollary and support functions included the operation of air
surveillance and limited air defense, the provision for admimistrative

and proficiency flying for all JOINT TASK FORCE THREE personnel, the
operation of an air intra-island transport using liaison aircraft and

helicopters, and in conjunction with Task Group 3.3. a Search and
Rescue activity. Additional responsibilities involved the provision for

weather reconnaissance, analysis and forecasting, and for documentary
film coverage for all JOINT TASK FORCE THREE activities.

Major Descriptors: *ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; *GREENHOUSE PROJECT; *MILITARY
FACILITIES; *NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS -- MONITORING; *NUCLEAR WEAPONS <--~
TESTING
Descriptors: HELICOPTERS; SURVEILLANCE; WEATHER
Broader Terms: AIRCRAFT; EQUIPMENT; EXPLOSIONS; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; WEAPONS

Subject Categories:
Weaponry ~~

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Author(s):

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(Item 307 from file: 103)
ERA-11-006173; EDB-86-005068

Mitchell,

E.F.

Title: Operation GREENHOUSE. Scientific Director’s report. Annex 5.1.
Evaluation of ground radiac
Corporate Source:
Signal Corps Engineering Labs., Fort Monmouth, NJ
Publication Date: May 1952
p 245

Report Number(s):
Document Type:

(USA)

AD-A-995251/6/XAB

Report

Language: English
Journal Announcement:

EDB8510

Availability: NTIS, PC All/MF AO.
Subfile:

BRA

(Energy Research Abstracts).

Country of Origin: United States
Country of Publication: United States
Abstract: Prior to Operation Sandstone at 1948, radiac equipment had been
designed for laboratory and plant use. After Sandstone, the Department
of Defense

(DoD)

and the Atomic Energy Commission

(AEC)

developed a

great variety of radiac expressly for military and civil-defense
appplications. It is extremely difficult to simulate conditions
existing at the time of, and soon after, an atomic explosion;
therefore, it is very difficult to evaluate radiac completely in the
laboratory or in the field without an atomic explosion. Only by testing
at an atomic proving ground is it possible to determine the true worth

of service equipment. The work reported in this volume includes

analyses in stateside laboratories and experiments at Eniwetok during
the spring of 1951. Twenty-one types of dosimeters, sixteen types of
survey meters,

and one mobile radiological field laboratory, ‘and four

Jaundry-monitoring arrangements were tested. These included equipment
development by, or under the sponsorship of the Army Signal Corps, the
Army Chemical Corps, the AEC, and the Bureau of Ships of the Navy.
Conclusions are reached and recommendations are made with regard to
adequacy of the equipment, adequacy and feasibility of existing
military characteristics, direction of future developments, and
necessity for future tests and improved test methods.

Major Descriptors: *ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT -- BLAST EFFECTS; *ELECTRONIC
EQUIPMENT -- PHYSICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; *GREENHOUSE PROJECT; *NUCLEAR
EXPLOSIONS -- BLAST EFFECTS; *NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS -- PHYSICAL RADIATION
EFFECTS; *NUCLEAR WEAPONS -- TESTING; *RADIATION DETECTORS ~- BLAST
EFFECTS; *RADIATION DETECTORS -- PHYSICAL RADIATION EFFECTS

Descriptors:

GROUND LEVEL;

SURVEYS

Broader Terms: EQUIPMENT; EXPLOSIONS; LEVELS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS;
NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; RADIATION EFFECTS; WEAPONS

Subject Categories: 450202*
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440200
-- Radiation Effects on Instrument Components, Instruments,

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