; won responsibility of organizing a Joint Radiological Safety Group within JTF-7 for the operational detection and determination of intensities and types of radioactivity, and the protection of personnel from its hazards. In October 1947 Colonel Cooney met with Captain Frank I. Winant, Jr., USN, Colonel Robert N. Isbell, CmlC, USAF, Dr. Herbert Scoville, Jr., Lt. Colonel Karl H. Houghton, MC, USA, and Major William i, Stone, CmiC, USA all of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project at the Pentaron in Washington. At this meeting Colonel Cooney outlined the proposed plan for the atomic tests and announced that a Radiological Safety Group would be formed, On 18 October 1947 General Orders Number 3, Headquarters, Joint Task Force SEVEN, Washington, D. C. announced the establishment of the Joint Radiological Safety Group, Task Group 7,6 For a period of about three weeks during the month of October 1947 Colonel Cooney accompanied Lt. General Hull and his party on a survey of areas in the Pacific. This was in connection with the selection of particular ZERO islands » aml Colonel Cooney accompanied the group to consider radiological safety aspects. In November 1947 the Joint Proof test Cammittee submitted the "creen paper" to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. A certain portion of this paper, dealing with fundamental radiological safety rules to be employed in SANDSTONE, was drafted by the Staff of the Radiological Safety Group. This group originally consisted of Colonel Cooney, Coomander Winant, Dr. Scoville, Lt. Colonel Houghton, Major Stone, and Lt, Commander Campbell, USN of AFSWP, The primary rule included in this paper was that Conmander, JIF-7 would be responsible for