Conduct the radiological-safety program

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Initiate voice-time broadcasts for all elements of the
Task Force.

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Prepare appropriate technical reports at the conclusion
of each shot and the whole operation,

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With the completion of Operation Ivy in November 1952, the
Headquarters of Task Group 132.1 returned to J-Division in the Los
Alamos Scientific Laboratory to begin planning for Operation Castle.
The final organization is shown iv Fig. 3.1. It includes task units
for the University of California Radiation Laboratory programs, for

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UCRL device assembly, and for the Department of Defense programs.

These are changes from the Ivy organization. In order to free himself
for other urgent commitments, the Task Group Commander did not personally take charge of the Firing Party Task Unit. This proved to be a

worth-while change from the previous practice.

At midnight Washington time, January 31, 1953, Joint Task Force

132 became Joint Task Force SEVEN and Task Group 132.1 became Task

Group 7.1.

established.

On March 4, 1953, Task Group 7.5, AEC Base Facilities, was

During 1953, UCRL organized, staffed, and established L-Division
at Livermore, California.
Relationships between the L-Division group
and Headquarters, Task Group 7.1, were very close during this period.
For most of the time UCRL had a liaison representative in residence

at Los Alamos, and visits were constantly exchanged between members of

the two organizations.
In order to support UCRL overseas and to train
personnel for future overseas tests, L-Division integrated personnel
into the Task Group 7.1 J-1, J 3, and J-6 staff sections and filled
billets in’ those sections overseas.

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Since the principal function of the Task Force and most of the

Task Groups was to support the scientific effort, most of the overall

planning depended on the plans of Task Group 7.1.

Therefore,

command

relationships differed somewhat from the normal military pattern.

Figure 3.2 shows the Joint Task Force SEVEN organization and some of
the major command relationships

personnel of Task Group 7.1.

involved,

and Table 3.1 shows the key

CJTF SEVEN coordinated the activities of

Task Groups 7.1 and 7.5 through his Scientific Director, in accordance

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